coolbeans, Herman & Chomsky

The propaganda model seems to be a way in which major businesses, government, and media outlets are able to communicate the values and beliefs of the particular businesses, government, and media outlets to the masses. These three entities seem to be influential amongst each other and therefore work together to support each other. The government can work with businesses because businesses will show their support for the government if the government provides them with something that be beneficial to the company. The same thing applies to the media. Therefore all three work together and attempt to disperse their propaganda, meanwhile having the same interests at hand. In CMC 200 we read a research study called A Tale of Two Wars by Daniela V. Dimitrova and Colleen Connolly-Ahern in which four different news outlets were studied (The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Al Ahram, and the NY Times) in order to see how they were framed to portray the events of the Iraq War. It was found that the NY Times highlighted more the reason for war being to help a nation in trouble, while Al Jazeera and Al Ahram highlighted the violence and deaths and The Guardian was the most neutral. In this case it is clear that the media clearly is working in the best interests of the governments that they correlate with because they are sending out the exact message that the governments want to send out to the people. By framing the articles in a certain way, the media (whether it means to or not) helps to get the government message out to members of society. Another recent example of the propaganda model in effect is the recent government bailouts for AIG. AIG is a huge company that many other companies also rely on as well. The collapse of this one company could be very bad for the economy. The government worked with the company to do what was beneficial to both the company as well as the government.