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Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America - Forward written by Bernie Panders
> capital allocation should remain in the hands of those who have proven themselves good at allocating capital.
It's easy to claim that one is deserving of their wealth (and then some more), when it is their wealth that allows them to change the rules of the game to their advantage.
But you already knew that.
It's always been like this. If you're interested check out:
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by R. McChesney
Necessary Illusions : Thought Control in Democratic Societies by N.Chomsky
Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism by R.McChesney
Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda by E.Herman
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media by M.Parenti
Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America by R.McChesney
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by E.Herman and N.Chomsky
Constructing Public Opinion by J.Lewis
The More You Watch the Less You Know by D.Schecter
The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas by R.McChesney
Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader by Dines and Humez
Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination by J.Lewis
Propaganda by E.Bernays
Make-Believe Media: The Politics of Entertainment by M.Parenti
When News Lies by D.Schecter
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by N.Chomsky
Will the Revolution Be Televised?: A Marxist Analysis of the Media by J.Molenyeux
All these guys have youtube lectures if you aren't much of a reader. Alternatively check out the following documentaries:
Manufacturing Consent
The Myth of the Liberal Media
The Power of Nightmares
Psywar
Class Dismissed: how TV frames the working class
The Power Principle
Project Censored: Is the Press Really Free?
Or you could even do a course in media literacy and watch Sut Jhally's lecture series on Media, Public Relations and Propaganda.
Dollarocracy by John Nichols and Robert McChesney is a great book that expands on this idea