Summary:
Evaluates the mass media industry and its affects on our society. Extensively cites Michael Parenti's book, Make Believe Media.
For the average American there is no escape from mass media. It can be found within our news papers, movies, television and internet, which account for most of our news and entertainment source. In Michael Parenti's book, Make Believe Media, the Politics of Entertainment, Parenti attests that this mass media clouds our society's perception of reality by propagating prefabricated images that create and validate a superficial ideological world. Unfortunately, people are denied the opportunity to obtain and interpret information, which impacts our society, by media conglomerates that wish to keep their industry profitable and on the rise. Effectively, the American public's information and entertainment sources are controlled by some ten media giants who instill a similar ideological propaganda that is anything but democratic in nature. According to Parenti, such things as story-telling through political entertainment, product.....
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