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Why the news media's job is to groom us

Cook, Jonathan
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-07-10/news-media-groom/

Date Written:  10/07/2024
Year Published:  2024  
Resource Type:  Article

Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media's differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do. As readers, we don't, as we imagine, 'consume' news. Rather, the news consumes us. Or put another way, the media uses the news to groom us, its audience. Properly understood, the relationship is one of abuser and abused.

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