/lit/ - Literature

>>421503

>Industry owns media, in order to make money.
>Media wants advertisers, in order to make money.
>Advertisers wants lots of viewers, in order to make money.
>Viewers give money to advertisers who choose media that backs the US.

There are some important factors that I know for a fact other critics make of the US media state. I don't know if Chomsky makes them but other media critics such as Bagdakin and McChesney do:

>Industry lobbies Government to vote for policy in their interest
>People vote on policy using information from the media
>Since media information is controlled by what is profitable, people vote for media interests

THEN we get to:

>Chomsky blames industry and government.

Here is a chart I made to show how this works. The lines on the chart show influence and cash flow. Notice how we as a public are divorced from news events that we need to vote on policy. Also, there are citations in case anyone wants to check my sources.

I know this isn't quite /lit/ but this board is the closest that I can talk about nonfiction.