Voice From the Back
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Below is the discussion so far. Feel free to add your own comments!Letter received by editorial committee:Dear EditorsIn reference to recent articles in the Socialist Standard of December and January, Voice from the Back contains two puzzling statements:“The daily press in Britain is fond of creating the myth that workers are gradually improving their economic position in society” (December) and “Newspapers are fond of depicting a Britain with a steadily improved standard of living” (January).Both these statements were followed by quotations from capitalist newspapers which contradict the Voice from the Back observations.Therefore would it not be accurate to state that newspapers (and politicians) would like to state that working class incomes are gradually or steadily improving but that reality prevents them doing so?Frank SimkinsP. S. All members, surely, are seeking the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as far as humanly possible.
Socialist Party Head Office wrote:Letter received by editorial committee:Dear EditorsIn reference to recent articles in the Socialist Standard of December and January, Voice from the Back contains two puzzling statements:“The daily press in Britain is fond of creating the myth that workers are gradually improving their economic position in society” (December) and “Newspapers are fond of depicting a Britain with a steadily improved standard of living” (January).Both these statements were followed by quotations from capitalist newspapers which contradict the Voice from the Back observations.Therefore would it not be accurate to state that newspapers (and politicians) would like to state that working class incomes are gradually or steadily improving but that reality prevents them doing so?Frank SimkinsP. S. All members, surely, are seeking the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as far as humanly possible.It is not unusual for people in positions of power to use that position to propogate that everything is OK. Opposition is filtered out. One can only hope that the majority wakes up to that but it is an uphill battle. TOGW
Not forgetting ChomskyManufacturing ConsentOverviewFirst presented in their 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, the "propaganda model" views the private media as businesses interested in the sale of a product—readers and audiences—to other businesses (advertisers) rather than that of quality news to the public. Describing the media's "societal purpose", Chomsky writes, "… the study of institutions and how they function must be scrupulously ignored, apart from fringe elements or a relatively obscure scholarly literature". My empasise
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