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ANZCA08 Conference, Power and Place. Wellington, July 2008
The Soros Media ‘EPIRE’: The Power of Philanthropy to Engineer Consent
The Future of Media
"Liberal philanthropy exerts a massive—albeit for the
most part unmentioned—influence on the shape
and function of global media systems. Major liberal
foundations and philanthropists of the
20th century have used their significant financial
resources to consolidate the capitalist system
(from which they derived their riches) by
devising ever more effective means to manufacture
consent. Without a doubt there is ample evidence to
support the contention that the power of lib
eral philanthropy has been harnessed to
protect the powerful. But liberal foundations and private
philanthropists, like George Soros, are not all powerful
(despite their wishes to be so), and the question remains:
Who is really the most powerful, the elites
or the general populous?
While the power to change our global media systems
is at the present juncture highly influenced by liberal
philanthropists, ultimately the power to resist their elitist
interventions can (and often is) countered by people
coming together to organize democratic alternatives."
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