yellowdaisy 4, Chomsky And Herman

This article was interesting because like most people, I once believed that because of free speech, the media could put whatever it wants on television and even tell the truth to the public. I was drastically wrong due to a little thing called propaganda. Not only do the advertisements work with the media but they evidently decide what goes on and what messages will be sent. Unfortunately, this like most of everything today, all goes back to money. Without advertisers consent, media outlets wouldn’t receive any money to be produced so despite what they want to say, they have to get consent from the funders before it airs. I believe it makes sense to get just an opinion of who’s funding you but I feel like what the messages the media sends should be what they want or what needs to be heard. Yet, this is too idealistic for today’s world where everything seems to be monitored. This reminds to a video we watched last semester in CMC 100 about the Monsanto milk controversy. Reporters at a Fox news station got fired because they would not retract a story about harmful hormones in Monsanto’s milk because Monsanto was a sponsor for that station. Even though the reporters would be helping the people by telling the truth, the network sided with Monsanto because they didn’t want to lose their funding. This can connect to the popular newspapers that were discussed in the article; which all were the ones that stuck to the mainstream standard ideals instead of the more insightful ones that questioned things, all because of the advertisers. It’s unfortunate that the general public that does not study CMC like we do, usually never learns the real truth behind things and just believes the propaganda that is fed to them by the government and big corporations, no questions asked.