14 September 2006 — Media Lens

The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in the last century as follows:

“The twentieth century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” (’Taking the risk out of democracy,’ University of Illinois Press, 1995, p.ix)

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