NewYorker - Herman and Chomsky

Some of what these authors had to say in this article I already knew. In a class I took last semester, we learned a lot about the power of the "superclass" which is the smallest percentage of the population with the most amount of money. They basically buy anything that serves their best interest. Whether that be paying a newspaper to print cerain things and omit certain things, or telling a reporter how to present a story. What the public then sees in the media has been carefully screened and selected. Even reality TV is not reality - it gets edited down a lot, and the producers sometimes make the characters reenact a scene so they can get it on film.
But the public thinks this what we want to see. We as a nation thrive on other people's misery and suffering. That is why there's always a terrible story on the news either about murder or bankruptcy, and why we want to know so much about Britney Spears and her downward spiral. Something needs to be done about this. We need to start having more positive stories get told so we can then thrive off of other people's success and happiness. It would be such a better world to live in if that were the case. But change is slow, and it has to begin somewhere. Maybe it can begin by not having the superclass rule over everything, and let another voice be heard.
The article also spoke about propoganda. Everything in the media is some form of propoganda one way or another. Even a speech made by the President is propoganda - propogand to make him and America look good, and to have the nation support him. But the clever thing that the media is doing is having multiple TV channels available with different kinds of news, and multiple newspapers and magazines for people to read. This way, it may seem to the common person that they are getting what they want, and have a plethora of different sides/views on issues, but every medium is still being censored and controlled.