booklet 1 Flashcards
Who said in 1983 50 corporations owned 90% of media companies ?
Bagdikan
Who argues that it suits the RC for WC to view ethnic minorities as a threat as it distracts them from the true cause of oppression of the capitalist system ?
Castles and Kosack
Who came up with the opium of the people ?
Milliband
Who sees media as an ideological instrument used to transmit ruling class ideology ?
Milliband
Who used 3 TV channels to get the most votes for Italian election ?
Silvio Berlusconi
Who suggests that newspaper owners do interfere with newspaper content ?
Curran Seaton
Who argue the RC need more than economic power to keep control. They argue the use of ideas is equally, if not more, important?
Gramsci
What company found reports in 2006, 2012 and 2016 found over 50% of the top 100 journalists in the UK were privately educated (compared to just 7% of the UK population)?
Sutton Trust Research
Who sees media owners, editors and journalists as part of “the establishment” – an alliance of unaccountable powerful groups with common economic interests and views (also includes politicians, judges, senior police etc.). As a result, journalists turn a blind eye to corruption and greed in the Establishment, and instead demonise behaviour of the poor (such as benefits claimants or immigrants)?
Jones
Who says in postmodern society audiences are bombarded with so much information that lines between fact and fiction are blurred.
It’s therefore harder for owners to put across ‘their view’ of the world, as audiences are bombarded with so much information they may be sceptical of everything they read?
Baudrillard
Who argues that members of society have greater access and choice from a diversity of media , so can reject meta narratives proposed by the powerful ?
Levene
