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The type of information dispersed is always controlled in its content. This content control is necessitated by the limitations inherent in the selection of
a limited number of subjects from the larger mass of categories. The possible pool of information extends to thousands of subjects from gardening, history, geology and lost dogs, to crime, war, politics and religion.
The Controlling Agency and Instrument must select from the mass of subjects,
a more limited selection as a policy. This particularly applies to special interest media such as those dedicated to fashion, cars, poetry or sports. But primarily content control derives from the given perspectives of the Controlling Agency and Directing Instrument, and the people they employ, who may generally be required to have similar views which are relative to education, political and religious philosophy, economic and class interests, morals and ambitions.
The selection of content may best serve the interests and benefit the community as a whole, or it may be selected so as to best serve the Controlling Agency's own agenda and the interests of its friends and allies, or some combination of the two. Examples of different viewpoints are such as the distinctions between management and labor, capitalism and socialism, industry and environment, or conservative and liberal. The content selected may be controlled so as to agree with the policies of either the Controlling Agency, or may be more concerned with the perspectives of the constituency, or some combination of the two.
A further source of the control of content derives from the method of
economic operation. Media needs an economic means to operate and can be
said to be financed from funding, originating with the populace in general, in
the form of taxes or membership fees, which is socialist in its dynamic,
or by market forces, such as direct purchase, advertising and subscription
which is Capitalist.
Socialist media can be Authoritarian or
Democratic. The Controlling Agency of Authoritarian media is the Government. All forms of Authoritarian government to include so called
'Right Wing' dictatorships, is considered here as Socialist because its economic dynamic is financed by
the population at large in the form of taxes.
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