Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again.
Watch this documentary and over 50 more on Films For Action for $5/mo: filmsforaction.org/watch/the-myth-of-the-liberal-media
Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large corporations than to left-wing advocacy, they dissect how news content gets shaped within a narrow, and ultimately conservative, institutional frame that marginalizes the progressive perspectives of a broad cross-section of the American public. The film, made before the rise of Fox News, has become only more relevant with time.
"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled, how it is funded." - Noam Chomsky
"The Mainstream media really represent elite interests, and what the propaganda model tries to do is stipulate a set of institutional variables, reflecting this elite power, that very powerfully influence the media." - Edward Herman
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If you think U.S. news has a liberal bias, this assumption-shattering film from Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, and Justin Lewis will have you thinking again.
Watch this documentary and over 50 more on Films For Action for $5/mo: filmsforaction.org/watch/the-myth-of-the-liberal-media
Making the common-sense case that mainstream news media are more committed to their bottom-line interests as large corporations than to left-wing advocacy, they dissect how news content gets shaped within a narrow, and ultimately conservative, institutional frame that marginalizes the progressive perspectives of a broad cross-section of the American public. The film, made before the rise of Fox News, has become only more relevant with time.
"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled, how it is funded." - Noam Chomsky
"The Mainstream media really represent elite interests, and what the propaganda model tries to do is stipulate a set of institutional variables, reflecting this elite power, that very powerfully influence the media." - Edward Herman
License for educational or public use: shop.mediaed.org/the-myth-of-the-liberal-media-p114.aspx?utm_campaign=filmsforaction
Learn more about becoming a Patron Subscriber:
filmsforaction.org/about/svod-service
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