Marxist View - News Is Biased And Used As An Ideological Tool

Question 1

McChesney

Answer 1

Journalists do not present the truth in the news. Media owners use news as an ideological tool
- democracy is undermined as the ‘truth’ is constructed around capitalist and right wing values of the owners

Question 2

Herman and Chomsky

Answer 2

News isn’t objective but works around market forces

• advertising shapes news content; most news organisations are fined by advertising contracts of media companies
• won’t see news which is anti neoliberal/ free market capitalism because of this

Question 3

Edwards and Cromwell

Answer 3

Corporate crime is therefore left out of the news - it is a propaganda machine

Question 4

Evaluation

Answer 4

Schlesinger- media doesn’t always act in the interest of powerful groups
- politicians are cartel about what they say as not to get slated in the media

Question 5

Evaluation - feminism

Answer 5

Women’s views are often left out - Marxist views do not challenge this