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Journalism 190: Week 9(Bagdikian) The socialization by media is damaging in that it: - ANS-produced chaos
and crisis across the United States because of media power to sustain myths about
national policies -- and in that, it has adversely affected national cultural values.
2 characteristics of high-quality journalism (McChesney): - ANS-1. It is committed to
ending information inequality and has a stake in seeing the end of social inequality --
while requiring a society committed to openness and justice in order that the society can
prosper.
2. It opposes corruption and secrecy and attacks on civil liberties -- but it also has a
stake in lessening militarism.
2 fundamental ways to think about journalism and democracy (McChesney): - ANS-1.
Democracy neeeds journalism.
2) Journalism needs democracy -- if a society is democratic in name only but has
widespread inequality and vast apathy and hopelessness about politics, real journalism
will be hard to conduct and will gravitate toward propaganda.
2 other Meiklejohnian solutions to the crisis of democracy: - ANS-1. Most radical, almost
entirely eliminate commercial media, and create a large, nonprofit, noncommercial
media system accountable to the public
2. Less radical, accept the existence of corporate media giants, regulate the
broadcasters, and tax media giants or use public funds to establish another viable
nonprofit and noncommercial media system that can service the needs of citizens who
are not able to own media corporations.
2 POSSIBILITIES EXIST regarding America's future and the future for a global
community held hostage (Chomsky): - ANS-1. The general population will take control
of its own destiny
2. Or there will be no destiny to control.
3 forces on the horizon that may bring about a debate on media structure (McChesney):
- ANS-1. capitalism is falling out of favor and is in danger, so the possibility of debating it
may arise
2. there has been a huge increase in the quantity and quality of media criticism -- the
dominant myths are more and more being scrutinized
, 3. U.S. political culture is awash in a crisis of cynicism, ignorance and apathy -- in which
the corporate media system has been implicated.
3 main reasons exist as to journalism's importance to a democratic state (McChesney):
- ANS-1. a democracy must have a rigorous watchdog of those in power and those who
want to be in power
2. a democracy must have a way to ferret out truth from lies
3. a democracy needs a way to present a wide range of informed positions on the
important issues of the day
3 reasons why there is little debate in America about how media are structured
(McChesney): - ANS-1. the inability to publicly debate the capitalist basis of the media is
a function of a general inability to criticize capitalism itself in our culture.
2. The corporate media have actively cultivated the ideology that the status quo is the
only reasonable media structure for a freedom-loving, democratic society.
3.the nature of media corporations themselvesin their control over the flow of
information
Bagdikian argues that - ANS-media "socializes" and "educates" people whether they
like it or not.
Bagdikian argues that in the newsroom, news that could damage an advertiser must
now: - ANS-"pass a higher threshold of drama and documentations than other kinds of
news."
BAGDIKIAN REMEDIES: - ANS-THE ANSWER LIES IN ACTIVISM, PROTESTS,
PETITIONS AND INVOLVEMENT OF THE YOUNG -- AS WELL AS IN VOTING.
THE PEOPLE MUST USE THEIR POLITICAL POWER, WHICH CAN OVERCOME
THE CRUDE POWER OF MAJOR CORPORATIONS.
Chomsky argues that people need to work to develop independent minds: - ANS-maybe
in part by forming COMMUNITY action groups with others with parallel interests and
values, not in isolation, which is where the present system tends to keep people.
Chomsky's Propaganda Model - ANS-says American media have "filters" -- ownership,
advertising, news makers, news shapers -- which together emphasize institutional
memory, limited debate and media content emphasizing the interests of those in control.
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