The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

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The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

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It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

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