Noam Chomsky and Media Ownership

Noam Chomsky’s article entitled “A Propaganda Model” introduces several issues and ideas about media bias, ownership and reporting for discussion. This paper will present two of the main arguments made in Chomsky’s article and will then present a personal critique and counter-arguments made in an article from another academic source. Finally, at the end of this paper, a new question will be raised for the purpose of inciting more interest and discussion on the controversial topic of bias and propaganda in the media.

The way in which Chomsky’s article is structured has made it conducive to presenting the five filters through which he believes every media story passes before being relayed to the consumer. While all filters equally affect the way in which consumers receive news coverage, the two filters that embodied the most general complaints were the first and the third filters that stressed media ownership and sources of information as the main culprits of media bias.

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