ecogitar: Public Lecture: The Global Financial Crisis

with Michel Chossudovsky

Montreal, November 27

Le Mouvement montréalais pour la vérité sur le 11 septembre en association avec le Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation présente:

GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

The Great Depression of the 21st Century

What are the policy alternatives?

Who are the Architects of Economic Collapse?

The Great Depression of the 21st Century: Collapse of the Real Economy

How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html

quarta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2008

Public Lecture: The Global Financial Crisis