mass media

is essentially propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

is tasked not with eliciting belief but with maintaining the apparatus of addiction.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

is the wholesalers; the peer-groups; the retailers of the communication industry.

is huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations which sell audiences to other businesses via advertisements. So when you turn on the television set, you are the product that they're selling.

...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present?

is a kind of indoctrination and it is a great ironry that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of it.

The great irony is that people who live in remote areas, who are illiterate and don't own TVs, are in some ways more free because they are beyond the reach of indoctrination by the modern mass media.

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mass media