The role of the media in the post-socialist indoctrination of the masses
Keywords:
Media, culture, neoliberal indoctrination, political indoctrination, cultural indoctrination, post socialist societiesAbstract
The subject of the paper is the consideration of neoliberal, political and cultural indoctrination of the masses in the period of post - socialist transition through the media. The aim of this paper is to demystify neoliberalism, its ideological, philosophical, and monistic absolutizations, as well as quasi-neoliberal indoctrination of mass. Also, the aim of this paper is to explain the role of the media in the indoctrination of the masses. The paper is based on two hypotheses: first, that the media in most cases were politically and financially dependent, i.e., rationally subjective actors in the information market and second, that the media in most countries in transition have abused their position, because they were an active accomplice in all forms of mass indoctrination. The paper uses common methods of social and economic sciences, including the methods of generalization, description, abstraction, comparison, induction and deduction. In conclusion, it is suggested that the role of the media in the period of post-socialist transition was essentially apologetic, and the confirmation of the basic hypothesis is stated.
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