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Is the Mainstream Media a Threat to Freedom and Sanity?

Academy of Ideas

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Choosing the Notes

For those who determine what information flows through, the mass media have the power to direct the attention of the masses toward certain issues and events. Wrote miro shnicenko, mass media made possible a never before seen conformity world views. One could say that mass media grants the few who control it the sort of power depicted in george orwall's novel 19 84. Choosing the notes made use of the mass media to induce their population into accepting totalitarian rule. For as the noy propaganda minister, joseph gerble stated, our way of taking power and using it would have been inconceivable without the radio.

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