sentences:  It is our view that, among their other functions, the media serve, and propagandize on behalf of, the powerful society interests that control and finance them.The representatives of these interests have important agendas and principles that they want to advance, and they are well positioned to shape and constrain media policy.This is not normally accomplished by crude intervention, but by the selection of right-thinking personnel and by the editors’ and working journalists’ internalization of priorities and definitions of newsworthiness that conform to the institution’s policy.” (xi)
  
  This model focuses mainly on “structural factors” of the mass media, including “ownership and control, dependence on other major funding sources (such as, advertisers), and mutual interests and relationships between the media and those who make the news and have the power to define it and explain what it means” (xi).