BubbaNub: Herman & Chomsky

   At this point, the topics covered by Herman and Chomsky should be apparent to us all.  It is no secret to the educated that the mass media merely reflects our governments sentiments.  As you turn to FOX, CNN, or CBS you begin to notice that all of the news lacks substance.  Devoid of journalistic integrity, the news has become a give and take form of distribution.  The government gives them a message and the news takes it without question.  So then we take another step back and look at the framework.  Who funds these TV stations?  What public and private policies benefit them?  What president will let them keep most of their money?  Why do they donate large sums of money towards presidential campaigns?  Isn't news supposed to be unbiased?

  My question is this, why aren't more people questioning what they are watching?  Maybe, like religion, people need an answer to everything and the overwhelming quantity of questions would deter most people from asking.  Perhaps that is the most powerful tool of the media, the fact that they no longer have to operate in secret but that they can continue to operate this way and make money.  So what do we do?  As I mentioned earlier the educated notice the structure, but what about the uneducated?  Has it become our duty as the privileged to educate the rest of society?  Is it our job to change policies that may raise our taxes, in order to help the lower class?  Or, will we do what most do, and take the education and tools of the media to further exploit the poor as history has done time and time again before us?