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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
A theory of the past
I believe that Noam Chomsky's Propaganda model does exist but not at the extent he believes it to be. If we take his word for it then it would imply that America does not celebrate democracy at all and there is no profession as journalism. I believe that there can be a few bad apples but it cannot be that the whole basket is rotten. In this case journalism would only be desk job where one was told what to write and publish and not the profession it is ought to be. This model affects people as they are told that nothing is true what is coming to them as news, where it only a product of manufactured consent but it has no hard evidence to prove it, where it only compares two events . I believe this could happen in the 20th century where the population would be more of a consumers market but this theory would hold less ground in the 21st century with the advent of web 2.0 where we enjoy two way dialogue of information and where the population has changed from a news consumer but have a right to freedom speech by being a content writer themselves. Thus giving rise to alternative media who are not dependent on mainstream media and being the in the web 2.0 era it enjoys the reach to billions of people all around the world and also the developing countries where internet penetration is growing at a rapid pace.