The Media/Democracy Paradox
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[Reading notes---06/10/08]
The Media/Democracy paradox
Background:
1. Information age
2. New media
3. Depoliticized society
Commentary: democracy without citizens
VS citizens/barbarians without democracy
A flowering commercial marketplace of ideas, unencumbered by government censorship or regulation, should generate the most stimulating democratic political culture possible.
That suits to the model of mass media as a public advocate, which, is the infrastructures that initiate the public debate and agenda.
Assumption: there is an informed and participating citizenry
The media have become a significant anti-democratic force
The core tendencies of a profit-driven, advertising-supported media system: hyper-commercialism and denigration of journalism and public service.
Media is the instrument of the elite in the propaganda champion and the legitimization of public policy.
The phantom of public, which citizen the citizen as a whole, whom are indifferent and hand-off
Capitalism benefits from having a formally democratic system, but capitalism works best when elites make most fundamental decisions and the bulk of the population is depoliticized.
Definition of Democracy: classical---the rule of many but not liberalism, which is the individual freedom as the property rights and investment, free press, free assembly, etc.
The crowed is so easily persuaded and thoughts of privileged authority or certain people at right time right place, can be contagious and thrilling.
Viewpoints& Argument: it is imperative that we restructure the media system so that it reconnects with the mass of citizens.
School: anti-neo-liberalism, which refers to the policies that maximize the role of markets and profit-making and minimize the role of the nonmarket institutions. The background here is that the booming wealthy media spoiled by neoliberals bring the depoliticized of the mass in the United States. Generated from the American Revolution, [Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin VS John Adams, Alexander Hamilton], the desire by the wealthy few to limit democracy predates capitalism, in the debate of adult male suffrage.
Two components:
1. How that state interference/regulate media: control; structure; subsidy;
2. The history, institution and convention: demand VS supply; professionalism of journalism; new media undermining the existing power of commercial media; first amendment and constitution protect the media from public interference;
In a word, go left---change and reform, maybe this is an explanation of the socialism/ social democratization of the United States is booming today. However, the public participate is never about open the door but direct where is the gateway in the contagious of chaos.
Robert W. McChesney; Walter lipmann; Gustave Le Bon; Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann;----for further indepth reading
The Media/Democracy paradox
Background:
1. Information age
2. New media
3. Depoliticized society
Commentary: democracy without citizens
VS citizens/barbarians without democracy
A flowering commercial marketplace of ideas, unencumbered by government censorship or regulation, should generate the most stimulating democratic political culture possible.
That suits to the model of mass media as a public advocate, which, is the infrastructures that initiate the public debate and agenda.
Assumption: there is an informed and participating citizenry
The media have become a significant anti-democratic force
The core tendencies of a profit-driven, advertising-supported media system: hyper-commercialism and denigration of journalism and public service.
Media is the instrument of the elite in the propaganda champion and the legitimization of public policy.
The phantom of public, which citizen the citizen as a whole, whom are indifferent and hand-off
Capitalism benefits from having a formally democratic system, but capitalism works best when elites make most fundamental decisions and the bulk of the population is depoliticized.
Definition of Democracy: classical---the rule of many but not liberalism, which is the individual freedom as the property rights and investment, free press, free assembly, etc.
The crowed is so easily persuaded and thoughts of privileged authority or certain people at right time right place, can be contagious and thrilling.
Viewpoints& Argument: it is imperative that we restructure the media system so that it reconnects with the mass of citizens.
School: anti-neo-liberalism, which refers to the policies that maximize the role of markets and profit-making and minimize the role of the nonmarket institutions. The background here is that the booming wealthy media spoiled by neoliberals bring the depoliticized of the mass in the United States. Generated from the American Revolution, [Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin VS John Adams, Alexander Hamilton], the desire by the wealthy few to limit democracy predates capitalism, in the debate of adult male suffrage.
Two components:
1. How that state interference/regulate media: control; structure; subsidy;
2. The history, institution and convention: demand VS supply; professionalism of journalism; new media undermining the existing power of commercial media; first amendment and constitution protect the media from public interference;
In a word, go left---change and reform, maybe this is an explanation of the socialism/ social democratization of the United States is booming today. However, the public participate is never about open the door but direct where is the gateway in the contagious of chaos.
Robert W. McChesney; Walter lipmann; Gustave Le Bon; Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann;----for further indepth reading