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Is Colombia's 'propaganda model' failing?
by Adriaan Alsema December 19, 2019
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WTF is the propaganda model?
The propaganda model is a theoretical model introduced by Chomsky and late economist Edward S. Herman in their 1988 book “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.”
According to these scholars, mass media are inherently biased in favor of business elites, mainly because the news outlets are owned by these elites and depend on their advertising funds.
According to Spanish journalism professor Francisco Sierra, Latin American journalists have indicated that the news media they work for additionally have an explicit political agenda to favor the interests of their owners and the US government.
A hundred qualitative interviews with Spanish-speaking journalists, both European and Latin American, from leading newspapers including Clarin (Argentina), El Tiempo (Colombia), El Pais (Spain) and El Comercio (Ecuador), revealed the existence of a deliberate propaganda campaign.
Journalism professor Francisco Sierra
More:
https://colombiareports.com/is-colombias-propaganda-model-failing/
