Wednesday 29 August 2007

Monbiot on the media

George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian that the world's media is determined by neoliberalism. He is write to say this because as he quite rightly points out most of it is owned by multimillionaires who use it to project ideas that support their interests. Those ideas which threaten their interests are ignored or ridiculed. How often are trade unions and left wing thinkers ridiculed by newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond. Monbiot is also right to acknowledge that neo-liberal terms are regarded as neutral and the media often supports the view that neo-liberalism is the only alternative.

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