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"You look at the media, or at any institution you want to understand. You ask questions about its internal institutional structure. You want to know something about their setting in the broader society. How do they relate to other systems of power and authority? If you?re lucky, there is an internal record from leading people in the information system which tells you what they are up to (it is sort of a doctrinal system). That doesn?t mean the public relations handouts but what they say to each other about what they are up to. There is quite a lot of interesting documentation."
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If you read this paragraph and absorbed the simple, astonishing truth it contains, you should never again be able to open a newspaper or turn on the television with anything less than COMPLETE SUSPICION.
LOOK: It's all right there in the dictionary, in grey and greyer...
me·di·um ( P ) Pronunciation Key (md-m)
n. pl. me·di·a (-d-) or me·di·ums
1. Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.
2. An intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on.
3. An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred: The train was the usual medium of transportation in those days.
4. pl. media (Usage Problem). a. A means of mass communication, such as newpapers, magazines, radio, or television.
b. media (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The group of journalists and others who constitute the communications industry and profession
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