“When the technical intervention is of immediate social relevance, then manipulation is a political act. in the case of the media industry, that is by definition the case.
Thus every use of the media presupposes manipulation the most elementary processes in media production, from the choice of the medium itself to shooting, cutting, synchronization, dubbing, right up to distribution , are all operations carried out on raw material. there is no such thing as unmanipulated writing, filming, or broadcasting. The question is therefore not whether the media are manipulated, but who manipulates them. A revolutionary plan should not require the manipulators to disappear; on the contrary, it must make everyone a manipulator.”
-Hans Margnus Enzenberger, “Democratic Manipulation,” Pg. 104
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