The Myth of a Free Press: Media Bias Explained

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A video about mainstream media bias.

Timestamps:

00:00 "Fake News"
01:20 Introduction
04:34 The "Migrant Crisis" and the "Migrant Caravan"
07:28 Anatomy of a News Report
11:53 Media and Representation
19:37 Manufacturing Consent
31:51 Inside the Consent Factory
48:26 Worthy and Unworthy Victims
52:59 Conclusions

Link to the BBC Newsnight report:    • Why are migrants crossing the English...  

In this month's episode of What the Theory?, I (Tom Nicholas) look at media bias and "fake news" primarily through the lens of Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky and the work of Stuart Hall on representation and the media.

We're going to put the corporate media under the spotlight in order to consider how media ownership leads to bias in the media which favours the richest and most powerful in our society.

As a case study, we're going to take a look at a news report which aired as part of the BBC's flagship news and current affairs programme BBC Newsnight. The report focuses on the "migrant crisis" and the current English Channel crossings. We're going to consider how BBC News has framed these Channel crossings, what response the report wants us to have to them and what aspects of the way in which our media works might have informed this.

It's a long one, but my goal was to create the ultimate media bias crash course. Hopefully, I've not done too badly on that front.

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