Corporate media isolates people to invalidate their shared discontent

Evidence

As Assange said on Saturday — and as Dan Hind also argues in The Return of the Public — the function of corporate media has been to isolate people, to make them distrust their discontent with a world controlled by business interests. What has combated this is the production of new collectivities of dissent, both online and in the streets. What we’re seeing in this extraordinary moment of transition is a reality management system imploding from within at the same time as it is being undermined from outside. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1573

As Assange said on Saturday — and as Dan Hind also argues in The Return of the Public — the function of corporate media has been to isolate people, to make them distrust their discontent with a world controlled by business interests. What has combated this is the production of new collectivities of dissent, both online and in the streets. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1573

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the learned claim about media impartiality recruiting viewers into false neutrality toward class conflict, and the theme of manufactured consent vs. dissent collectivities. — connects to: Media could not comprehend altruistic motivations among student protesters — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1516; Hyper-individualized attention ironically enslaves people to media rather than freeing them — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1139; Social media promotes an ideal of privatizing the self into corporate form — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 354 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1573

Broader Connections

• Media orient citizens by sifting out intersubjectively shared interpretations of the world #expands (0.85) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 41
• Modern communications media isolate men even as they connect them #corroborates (0.82) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 197
• Hyper-individualized attention ironically enslaves people to media rather than freeing them #expands (0.80) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1139
• Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination #corroborates (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1981
• Social media promotes an ideal of privatizing the self into corporate form #expands (0.72) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 354
• Removing all media would plunge individuals into a void enabling genuine self-knowledge #expands (0.70) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 852