News and propaganda

[Anonymous]

When we watch news outlets, we expect to be informed with accurate information. However sometimes, news outlets can misinform us and exposed us to propaganda and entertainment. Take for example Fox News.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWuE3KSgnOw

Producers who work in Fox News claim their network produces factual news, but is this really news.

There have been studies claiming people who watch news outlets like Fox are most likely to be misinformed and biased.

http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2014/02/07/study-people-who-dont-watch-the-news-are-more-informed-than-fox-viewers/

When people consume propaganda information from mainstream media, this could manipulate their political believes and cognitive thinking. Most viewers who watch Fox News believe that income equality is evil, math and science is some form of liberal agenda studies.

http://www.freewoodpost.com/2013/09/11/shocking-things-fox-news-viewers-believe/

Journalism is supposed to educate people with facts and inform them of global events.           

[J Surman]

User555net wrote:

When we watch news outlets, we expect to be informed with accurate information.

I don't think the majority of contributors here would agree with the above statement. Experience has shown it to be a fallacy. Of course there are journalists who do serious investigative work and who do provide honest information. Unfortunately they are not often seen or heard in the mass media.

[Darren redstar]

Anyone who thinks that there is a qualitative difference between Fox News and the guardian, or RT or Al Jazeera etc. is fooling themselves, all journalism under capitalism is propaganda for capitalism; either reformed and cuddly, or brutal and naked. 

[J Surman]

This quote from Global Research says a lot about where the 'main street' media is coming from:“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller, Bilderberg, 1991

[jondwhite]

Darren redstar wrote:

Anyone who thinks that there is a qualitative difference between Fox News and the guardian, or RT or Al Jazeera etc. is fooling themselves, all journalism under capitalism is propaganda for capitalism; either reformed and cuddly, or brutal and naked. 

Does that include the Socialist Standard? If not, why not?

[Darren redstar]

The socialist standard is propaganda, nobody would deny that, but it isn't journalism, it is an activist publication produced by socialists for the propagation of socialism. No matter what the individual intentions of the journalist as a worker s/he has to sell their labour power to the capitalist, and therefore cannot break their masters line.

[jondwhite]

I'm not sure the fact that the mainstream media is not the Socialist Standard or had the object of the SPGB is a reason to dismiss it as undifferentiated.There is certainly an element of 'manufacturing consent' though.

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