>One thing I've never been able to work out is, if this model were true, how would we ever hear about it?
That's like saying "If there's air pollution why are we not all dead?" Nobody said this system has no holes at all - just that this defines the major vectors of news.
>Why would Random House publish the book by Herman and Chomsky? Why would Al Jazeera produce this video and why would YouTube host it? These are all large media companies.
Because this is the general propaganda mechanisms, not absolute control.
Plus it doesn't cost them much. Reading it wont give you power, nor it's directly attached to some cause they actively promote or hurts their profit margins.
If it became a movement, or it was against some of their private interests or those of their sponsors concretely, and not in the abstract, it would be a different story.
That's like saying "If there's air pollution why are we not all dead?" Nobody said this system has no holes at all - just that this defines the major vectors of news.
>Why would Random House publish the book by Herman and Chomsky? Why would Al Jazeera produce this video and why would YouTube host it? These are all large media companies.
Because this is the general propaganda mechanisms, not absolute control.
Plus it doesn't cost them much. Reading it wont give you power, nor it's directly attached to some cause they actively promote or hurts their profit margins.
If it became a movement, or it was against some of their private interests or those of their sponsors concretely, and not in the abstract, it would be a different story.