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In the "", Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky focus on the inequalities of wealth and power and its effects on the media at different levels. It allows the government and dominant private corporations and holdings to influence the public through a set of five filters, ....

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.... governments have greater resources, and when they do this sort of thing, we quite correctly refer to it as propaganda III. The third filter: Sourcing Mass-Media News Time and monetary concerns force media to rely on official/State sources for information. Persons in official capacities are thought by the general public to provide objective news, while it is instead in their best interests to give information with a pro-establishment spin. IV. The fourth filter: Flak and the Enforcers "Flak" (negative responses to a media statement or program) serves to narrow coverage and debate. Powerful interests (corporations, governments) can produce powerful ....