What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream

Noam Chomsky

Part of the reason why I write about the media is because I am interested in the whole intellectual culture, and the part of it that is easiest to study is the media. It comes out every day. You can do a systematic investigation. You can compare yesterday’s version to today’s version. There is a lot of evidence about what’s played up and what isn’t and the way things are structured.........(The whole article is found on this weblink)

Courtesy: http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm