Glenn Diesen
How Media Became Propaganda #substack #shorts
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Professor Mattias Desmet explains how modern media transitioned from a tool for democratic information into a mechanism for propaganda funded by powerful interests.
In this short clip, Professor Mattias Desmet explores the historical dependence of the public on media institutions to make invisible global events visible. He argues that this necessity led to a system where objective reporting became impossible, causing media to become closely aligned with and financed by industrial and monetary powers, eventually morphing into a form of propaganda used to manipulate the public.
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