Editing Propaganda model (section)

=== Sourcing ===
The third of Herman and Chomsky's five filters relates to the sourcing of mass media news: "The mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and reciprocity of interest." Even large media corporations such as the [[BBC]] cannot afford to place reporters everywhere. They concentrate their resources where news stories are likely to happen: the [[White House]], [[the Pentagon]], [[10 Downing Street]] and other central news "terminals". Although British newspapers may occasionally complain about the "[[spin-doctoring]]" of [[New Labour]], for example, they are dependent upon the pronouncements of "the Prime Minister's personal spokesperson" for government news. Business corporations and trade organizations are also trusted sources of stories considered newsworthy. Editors and journalists who offend these powerful news sources, perhaps by questioning the veracity or bias of the furnished material, can be threatened with the denial of access to their media life-blood - fresh news.<ref>{{cite web|last=Cromwell|first=David|author-link=David Cromwell|title=The Propaganda Model: An Overview|year=2002|publisher=excerpted from Private Planet: Corporate Plunder and the Fight Back; chomsky.info|url=http://www.chomsky.info/onchomsky/2002----.htm|access-date=7 March 2010}}</ref> Thus, the media has become reluctant to run articles that will harm corporate interests that provide them with the resources that they depend upon.

This relationship also gives rise to a "moral division of labor" where "officials have and give the facts" and "reporters merely get them". Journalists are then supposed to adopt an uncritical attitude that makes it possible for them to accept corporate values without experiencing [[cognitive dissonance]].