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Marxist explanation of bourgeois news media? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by CommonTern@lemmygrad.ml to c/communism101@lemmygrad.ml

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Can anyone recommend me some theory-oriented, Marxist writing describing how news media works? Especially regarding things like its relationship to the state or how private ownership influences it. I have already read Parenti. Thanks.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Assuming that by Parenti you mean Inventing Reality, check out Roderic Day's Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of "Brainwashing" which is in direct conversation with Inventing Reality and seeks to establish a different theory, radicalizing the most common view of how propaganda works with a materialist analysis. Sadly most of the analysis here is based on entertainment media, not news, but he does specifically talk about the news on a few points.

[–] davel@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 8 months ago

I found the whole series of “brainwashing” articles illuminating.