From “His green, colorful ideas awaken furiously” by Craig Morris at telepolis.
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As Chomsky puts it, the US media see their audience as consumers, not citizens. Today, TV shows aim to get a large audience for advertisers, not inform citizens. It all started with soap operas, whose content was the product of the advertising industry trying to get housewives to sit in front of the TV when ads for detergent were broadcast. Almost fifty years later, even “news” channels like CNN and Fox do not sell news to their audience, but the audience to the advertisers. [Quote]
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