Dear Mr. Harper

20 July 2006, 02:19 EST

Dear Mr. Harper:

I'm reading a book called Manufacturing Consent¹ that examines the role of media within a 'free thinking' society.

Media platforms that rely on advertising dollars to cover operational expenses are inherently biased. Knowing this, do you feel we should be funding the CBC more, or less?

I await your response.

Kind Regards.

1. Manufacturing Consent, A Propaganda Mode (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky):

The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfill this role requires systematic propaganda.

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