Regarding the 'Neo-Democracy', Media, and the Public Opinion in the United States

1 · · Aug. 14, 2021, 4:02 a.m.
Based on Chomsky’s Media Control. Democracy and Spectator Democracy # The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask what kind of a world and what kind of a society we want to live in, and in particular in what sense of democracy do we want this to be a democratic society? Let me begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful wa...