Explain Edward Herman's view on the social construction of reality and political bias when examining the media. Provide an example illustrating his view

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• The bias is economic and it is dominated by multinational corporations.
• The American media is part of a vast propaganda machine promoting the values and goals of business corporations.
• Herman conducts case studies examining advertising, ownership, and content to demonstrate the point.
• Stories affecting corporate profits are manipulated in a positive way.
o Dictators are portrayed as moderate or benign when they favor corporate investments and profits, even as the same leaders repress or massacre their own citizens.
• Newspapers use catchphrases such as "free trade," "third world elections," and other simplifications to hide the powerful economic forces behind political action.The political bias is neither liberal nor anti-American? it is based in market orientation.

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