Media
Media is the means of delivering and receiving data or information, through broadcasting and "narrowcasting".
Modern liberalism has developed to the point of becoming the hegemonic ideology in many capitalist countries, meaning that media which supports pro-liberal or pro-ruling class positions, especially for the ruling class of a particular state, tends to be deemed "apolitical", "neutral", or "unbiased". This is a recent development in the history of mass media.[citation needed]
The critique of media involves investigating the "filters" of bourgeois society which have the effect of censorship even without a centralized censoring source. One of the most well-known works of media critique is Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, a book still widely cited decades after its release. However, while the research of Herman, Chomsky and others tends to focus on news media, other forms of media, including literature, television, and music, are also ideological at their base.[citation needed]