Theories Of Ownership - Marxism

Question 1

Althusser

Answer 1

Media is a part of the ideological state apparatus - a form of capitalist brainwashing

Question 2

Miliband

Answer 2

• media shapes how we think about the world
• audiences are rarely informed about important issues such as inequalities in wealth or why poverty persists
• capitalist system is rarely criticised or challenged

Question 3

Tunstall and Palmer

Answer 3

Governments are no longer interested in controlling the activities of media owners
- they need their support either to gain power or hang onto it

Question 4

Curran

Answer 4

• evidence from Murdochs media empire
• papers change political alliance to ensure the government let them do what they want and make profit
• acted as a phantom prime minister under Thatcher but supported Blair once he was in power