Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 16:36:45 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Re: NC gets personal
Ian Murray wrote:
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Where Chomsky says:
>There is another influence on the mass media that should not be
>overlooked. The 1960s had a big civilising effect on society; people
>who went through that experience are just different. A reporter or
>young editor in the 1980s would have been somebody whose view of the
>world was shaped by events in the 1960s and what followed.
> My own feeling is that, bad as they are, the media are better
>than they were 40 or even 20 years ago, partly for these reasons,
>partly because the public mood is different. Things are still awful,
>but they used to be much worse.
This should present a little problem for people who get all hot over media concentration - Chomsky says the media have improved over the very same period the combinations happened. The Time of Luce was in many ways worse than that of AOL Time Warner, no?
Doug