Marxism

• What is marxisms view of the media?

  Focused on control of the media by the media owners (ruling class)
• Does Marxism Have a negative or positive view of the media?


  A negative view
• What do Marxists believe about the owners of the media?

  That they control the media content. For example Twitters original owners suspended Trumps account, whilst Elon Musk allowed it to be reactivated
• What do traditional Marxists believe?

  That they control media owners control what we see in the media - the media owners explore their position to manipulate the content of the media
• What do Capitalist media owners do?

  They tell news editors what stories to cover and what views to put across
• Who is the theorist for Marxism and the media?

  Miliband 1969
• What did Miliband suggest?

  That the messages that capitalist media owners put across encourage the proletariat to be subordinate and happy to serve the bourgouisie
• What does Marxist sociologists suggest about the control of ideas?

  That it doesn’t just happen in the news of factual programmes for example, family entertainment programmes are preserved as light hearted fun, but they present a specific idea of British family life