This article involved news and the how the media is controlled by our government. I felt as if this was an article I could relate to in the fact that my uncle is a broadcaster for Fox News so I've grown up in a house that frequently discussed news and the work going into behind the scenes.
"Ben Bagdikian stresses the fact that despite the large mass media numbers, the twenty-nine largest media systems account for over half of the output of newspapers, and most of the sales and audiences in magazines, broadcasting, books, and movies." (Herman and Chomsky 206)
The quote brings to life the way in which all of our sources for information converge into a small grouping of corporations. We are led to believe that our information can be trusted when it's reassured by numerous sources, yet this is all a facade put on by the corporations. In all actuality it's a few spread into many.
When I think of this article I relate it back to the books The Hunger Games. It sounds strange but in the books the government controls all of the information received by the people. From the citizens minds the games played every year need to happen to remember the darker days. In both that fantasy world and our society today we are constantly flooded with images from the media and eventually we believe what they intend for us to. Today we think it's ok for some social issue to occur and in the book it's ok for them to send off two people from their district every year.
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