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References to Alternatives may have negatives attached or be overly emphasized. Media may misrepresent or exaggerate Alternative perspectives and utilize attitudes which trivialize, demean or make them seem
inconsequential.
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Continuous emphasis of issues, events and personalities of
absolutely no importance, while what is of importance to the
members of the audience as individuals or as a whole, is ignored
especially if it concerns alternative solutions.
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Selection of topics for presentation and discussion which
promote ideological and commercial interests of the selectors.
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Issues and entertainment may be polarized such that third, fourth,
fifth and more alternative perspectives are never be represented.
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Non-establishment ideas, cultures, classes, individuals may be
continuously stereotyped, which even if emphasizing positive
aspects, may produce the illusion of simple one dimensionality.
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Alternative perspectives which challenge the Establishment may
be continuously interrupted and steered away from essential points in moderated discussion formats. Discussion group panels may be stacked
three, four, five, or six to one in favor of Established view points.
Other aspects of media control may be such things as interrupted
broadcasts from seconds to hours, at critical moments in terms of
information. It may also seem that certain stories are off limits. To avoid
the obvious, the whole category of such stories may not be covered until
such a time that they can resume without it. Substitutions for missing categories may be items of a non-contemporary nature that can be used at anytime, or stories may break out of nowhere that could have been news on any day such as something impending.
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