"This is a generation that is under pressure from the media it consumes..."
...to be brazenly materialistic, selfish, depoliticized and non-socially minded. To the extent one finds these values problematic for a democracy, we all should be concerned. The commercial media is the ideological lynchpin of the globalising market economy.
Consider the case of the Czech Republic. Only a decade ago (Ram: 1989) the young generation led the 'Velvet Revolution' against the Communist Regime under the slogan 'Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred'. Ten years later, even the Wall Street Journal acknowledged that the Czech Republic had turned into a demoralised morass, where 'an unnerving dash to the free market' had created a society awash with greed, selfishness, corruption and scams."
Robert McChesney 'It's the media stupid ' 2000.
Consider the case of the Czech Republic. Only a decade ago (Ram: 1989) the young generation led the 'Velvet Revolution' against the Communist Regime under the slogan 'Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred'. Ten years later, even the Wall Street Journal acknowledged that the Czech Republic had turned into a demoralised morass, where 'an unnerving dash to the free market' had created a society awash with greed, selfishness, corruption and scams."
Robert McChesney 'It's the media stupid ' 2000.