{"id":45890,"date":"2011-11-06T18:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/so-what-the-media-do-in-effect-is-to-take-the\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T18:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:35:44","slug":"so-what-the-media-do-in-effect-is-to-take-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/so-what-the-media-do-in-effect-is-to-take-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the \u201cnational interest\u201d and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework-so the debate only enhances the strength of the assumptions, ingraining them in people\u2019s minds as the entire possible spectrum of opinion that there is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Noam Chomsky &#8211; Understanding Power (via <a href=\"http:\/\/noam-chomsky.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noam-chomsky<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what the media do, in effect, is to take the set of assumptions which express the basic ideas of the propaganda system, whether about the Cold War or the economic system or the \u201cnational interest\u201d and so on, and then present a range of debate within that framework-so the debate only enhances the strength &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/06\/so-what-the-media-do-in-effect-is-to-take-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}