orp controls 67% of all metropolitan newspaper sales in Australia and combine that with Fairfax, then those two companies alone own 98% of Australia's newspaper sales.(2) The power given to a select few in the print media in turn creates this notion which Chomsky exposes, that media in contemporary society has a set function in order to serve the interests of big business and this comes at the expense of the general interest of society.(3) The way the print media discourses its information is in a way that misinforms the majority of the consumers so as it can privilege the select few media owners. Chom
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