Occupy movement challenging belief in propaganda model of media

The propaganda model of the media says certain kinds of stories will be unlikely to be covered if they are not profitable for powerful media companies, that may be upsetting to advertisers, that threaten the status quo, and so forth.

So what explains the widespread coverage of the occupy movement on CNN? This is just from today ...

Deadline passes, DC protesters remain

Defiant but festive, Occupy DC protesters hunkered down early Tuesday as a deadline passed for U.S. Park Police to begin enforcing a ban on camping in two Washington parks. FULL STORY | OPEN STORY

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• Occupy 'glitter bombs' DC banquet
• Oakland City Hall trashed by Occupy
• Open Story: Occupy gets rowdy
• Pardoned murderer disappears
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 Meanwhile, over at Fox News, this is the ONLY story on Occupy.

Cops enforce sleeping ban for Occupy protesters

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm .....

More on media propaganda

Since we are talking about media and propaganda from Chapter 1 of the book, I thought you'd like to see more on the issue. And of course there is a lot more!

Just google it and poof! Millions of readable bits of information including, of course, a wikipedia article on the media propaganda model.

As stated in class, I think the propaganda model overstates it, but the truth is closer to that than it is the democratic postulate. We are simply not being informed of the key facts we need to function as a democracy.