Understanding the media filter

In Keeping the Media Safe for Big Business, Media Lens adds to the discussion surrounding the way the media is run to benefit some and ignore/attack/trivialise others. Also addressed is how journalists become a part of this system, often without their own knowledge.
The debate builds on the works of Chomsky and Hermann in their landmark book, first published in 1988, Manufacturing Consent. The work aims to show the media is controlled in western democracies, without the need for any sinister conspiracy theories.