Articles by Listening Post

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Noam Chomsky – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Listening Post | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2017

According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy. Narrated by Amy Goodman, Executive Producer of Democracy Now! Mar 2, 2017

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Journalism in the Age of Surveillance
Listening Post – Al Jazeera English, 6 Oct 2014

The ‘Snowden effect’ and challenges to the media in the age of state supervision. We spoke to journalists and technologists at the forefront of the effort to keep our communications – both the content and its related metadata – unavailable to the governments who might take advantage of them.

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Bahrain: Below the Radar
Listening Post - Al Jazeera, 25 Apr 2011

Bahrain – a small kingdom cracking down on the media in a big way. Plus, a look at state media in post-revolution Egypt.

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