Neo Marxism - TOO

Question 1

GUMG

Answer 1

media content does support interests of those who run capitalist system

• but this is an unintended product of social background ms if journalists and broadcasters rather can a conscious capitalist conspiracy
• journalists tend to be male, white and middle class

Question 2

What percentage of journalists are privately educated

Answer 2

54% - thus supporting ruling class ideology

Question 3

Gumg also argues that journalists

Answer 3

Are not motivated by a desire to defend capitalist interests

• media companies are profit making businesses
• write stories which will make them money, avoiding controversial topics
• capitalism is presented as ‘normal’ and ‘acceptable’ as no alternative is presented

Question 4

Barnett and Weymour

Answer 4

Tv has become dumbed down- less documentaries on TV now - means audiences are less educated - can’t challenge dominant ideology - creates false class consciousness