Chomsky Five Filters

Following Baudrillards idea about the media not telling us the full truth i discovered Chomsky and his five filters.


Noam Chomsky describes that are five filters that stop the media explainin g the full truth.

1.Ownership

This is basically that the Media companies are owned by rich corporates such as Rupert Murdoch and that they only tell news which is interest to them and the elite rih society not the middle or lower class society

2.Advertising

80% of revenue for media is advertising. So basically the news is advertising driven and will not release any information that cpuld damage advertising revenue

3.Governement

Mass Media heavily relies on information from Government agencies so it wont sya too much out of line

4.Flak

Mass media is under pressure by people who support the media not say anything against them

5. Norms

Journalists wont say anything that could get them in trouble so they keep the news safe