... . The news cannot be boring. The networks must have high ratings and must make money. In order to do this, they must keep their audience. The people cannot change the channel. In order to complete this task, individuals change the facts in order to remain interesting and entertaining. For example, in The Stranger the reporters present at the trial of Meursault ... to rewrite history. The government of 1984 is rewriting history. In his book, Media Unlimited, Gitlin explains how Andrew Hayward, then CBS News president altered stories: "Hayward wanted blond-haired, blue-eyed people with HIV...

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... of their basic critical function in a society which seems increasingly capable of satisfying the needs of the individual through the way in which it is organized" (Marcuse 1). The tactics politician's channel through the media is much more complex than how the corporations manipulate the public. Advertising has invented these corporate monsters, the circulation of the newspaper promoted business products and television ... government as a stimulating, supporting, and sometimes even controlling force: hitching of this economy to a world-wide system of military alliances, monetary arrange...

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