I gave it a go, and it feels really dated to a period when television and newspaper news rooms were a signficantly more important social institution, and while some of the case studies are interesting it's ultimately fairly repetitive and intended to demonstrate capitalist control of media to a skeptical audience. Maybe it's best role would be as a critical history of 'Newsroom' era news. Man I used that word a lot.
For all the flack he rightly receives, there are a lot of really excellent and accessible Noam Chomsky talks on Spotify that cover exactly this! I used to listen to them while I worked on a blueberry farm, so I don't remember the names, but what I remembered and internalized from the ones I listened to were really helpful in making a clear and compelling critique of capitalist news media. Sorry that that isn't a super specific lead to go on.
I gave it a go, and it feels really dated to a period when television and newspaper news rooms were a signficantly more important social institution, and while some of the case studies are interesting it's ultimately fairly repetitive and intended to demonstrate capitalist control of media to a skeptical audience. Maybe it's best role would be as a critical history of 'Newsroom' era news. Man I used that word a lot.
I'm looking for a book to help consolidate my arguments that the media ecosystem ultimately feeds you exactly what capital wants.
For all the flack he rightly receives, there are a lot of really excellent and accessible Noam Chomsky talks on Spotify that cover exactly this! I used to listen to them while I worked on a blueberry farm, so I don't remember the names, but what I remembered and internalized from the ones I listened to were really helpful in making a clear and compelling critique of capitalist news media. Sorry that that isn't a super specific lead to go on.