Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities - for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images. (Christopher Lasch)

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities - for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

Christopher Lasch

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