Posts Tagged ‘Propaganda Model’

Noam Chomsky (Source: http://bit.ly/gYOtrn) Of course I was disappointed. When I followed the German news on the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, I got the feeling that the world was unable to adress the size of the challenge ahead. I fully agreed with the coverage in German newspapers, which emphasised that this had [...]

Photo: New York Stock Exchange 1963 (Source: http://bit.ly/amYJNo) This afternoon, I came across an interesting passage in Anatole Kaletsky’s “Capitalism 4.0″ (2010): “The media, influential academics, and the political establishment usually hold the same view. These powerful opinion-formers have risen to prominence under the old system. Their intellectual conservatism is often even more entrenched than [...]