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sábado, 17 de agosto de 2024

Freedom of choice in a capitalist system: the freedom to be screwed by the financial system (banks, insurance companies and the like).

Free market: market regulated by a legal system written by law firms to ensure that profits are accrued by the parasitic rentier class (the FIRE sector).

Reading suggestion

The Capital Code: How Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691178974/the-code-of-capital

Comment on the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/Ei_MHw31aBE?si=N4irs7xWu-SMry1t

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