In leftist professor Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman’s classic analysis of the mass media, Manufacturing Consent, the main thesis is that “the ‘societal purpose’ of the media is to inculcate and defend the economic, social and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state.”

The ways the media inculcate the “political agenda of privileged groups,” according to Chomsky and Herman, are numerous.

They include the “selection of topics,” “framing of issues,” “filtering of information,” “emphasis and tone,” and, most of all, “by keeping debate within the bounds of acceptable premises.”

But the latest tool used by corporate media to “manufacture consent” is the fake news poll.

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