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The Free Press
Hilaire Belloc
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I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small independent organs, and the probably increasing effect of these last.
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small independent organs, and the probably increasing effect of these last.
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Further the mass of men, though there was more intelligent reading (and writing, for that matter) than there is to-day, had not acquired the habit of daily reading.
It may be doubted whether even to-day the mass of men (in the sense of the actual majority of adult citizens) have done so. But what I mean is that in the time of which I speak (the earlier part, and a portion of the middle, of the nineteenth century), there was no reading of papers as a regular habit by those who work with their hands. Th. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The author was talking about pre-WWI Britain, but he could just as easily have been talking about the US in 2013. Good book.
Excellent book. Probably the best media analysis I have ever read, and yet it was written over 100 years ago. As an Australian, it describes perfectly the current situation we find ourselves in. This could easily have been written as a polemic against Rupert Murdoch specifically, but also the packer
It's unsettling how contemporary this feels despite being just over a century old. Obviously not 1:1, but it's evidence enough of how solid and obvious the foundation of socialist critique is and how little changing institutions are as a whole within Capitalism. Today's criticism of Mainstream Media
Very good book regarding the media, and those who ultimately control it.
This is not a querulous complaint against evils that are human and necessary, and therefore always present. I detest such waste of energy, and I agree with all my heart in the statement recently made by the Editor of "The New Age" that in moments such as these, when any waste is inexcusable, sterile
A sort of addendum to "The Servile State", Belloc describes the problem with a press that obtains the majority of its revenue from advertising, viz. that the publisher will always find it in his best interest to omit (or distort) portions of the truth. Inasmuch as large business concerns are tied up