(en) Brazil, Anarchist journal Aurora Obreira #25 - Means of Social Control - The Communications Media by Anselmo Lorenzo (pt)

The Media The Press and TV play a role of indoctrination and training of public opinion of 
the people, seen as mass, of paramount importance to thought control apparatus of the 
modern capitalist state. Firstly through soaps, series, contests, sports ... They take the 
time for reflection and connection with your equals. Makes 100 years that we had to 
entertain themselves to talk, go to a dance, do theater, play a musical instrument, read 
... television not only reduces discontent by providing distraction, but also keeps us at 
home. The journalists frighten and threaten people with lurid news, and intend that the 
common people identify with the privileged through reporting on fashion and military 
parades, coronations, weddings, baptisms, funerals, sports victories, great events ... 
Also modeling language and convey a standardized language.

Second, the media distorts reality and create public opinion states. What is not reported, 
does not exist. In 1975, Cambodia was in the hands of the Khmer Rouge communist 
dictatorship. Around one million people were murdered. The international press echoed the 
capitalist subject, the daily news communicated what was happening and documentary films 
were made ??... Any western knew what was happening in Cambodia. While the Indonesian 
army, an ally of the United States, invaded that country rises blessing the former 
Portuguese colony of East Timor. The atrocities were the same, the number of dead and very 
similar planned and systematic genocide, the population decimated and replaced by native 
Indonesians. Do not say a word.

Similarly, the press and television prepare the environment for the Yugoslavian civil war, 
to invade Afghanistan or Iraq. Or to create fear about some brutal and morbid crimes, to 
sell more Coke, or to inculcate the love for the Corinthians or Palmeiras (or your team 
idolatry), for fast cars, nonfat yogurt or by certain underwear. In contrast disqualify 
dissent anticapitalist, which is painted with anachronistic, anti-modern, violent and 
obsolete.
's the great powers who exercise the monopoly of communication and that can educate the 
"masses". The opposition can do just ridiculous efforts. What are the 10,000 copies of 
this magazine compared with hundred thousands of copies daily in the bourgeois press, its 
television stations and their radio stations?
( based on the book Anarchism Basic Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation, first part here 
http://anarkio.net/index.php/libr/268-anarquismo-basico-1 )