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In the "Propaganda Model", 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, which make up the propaganda model.
I. The first filter: Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation of the Mass Media
Ownership of national me ....
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.... 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 and influential flak-this causes their concerns to be disproportion ally regarded. The possibility of flak from the general public can also cause media to avoid controversy (such as serious cri ....
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