There has been debate about how the Internet has changed the public’s access to information since 1988. The theory of manufacturing consent has five general classes of “filters” that determine the type of news that is presented in news media. It the art of manipulating people without them being aware of it.

Consent for economic, social, and political policies, both foreign and domestic, is “manufactured” in the public mind due to this propaganda.

The theory consists of five general classes of “filters” that determine the type of news that is presented in news media. These five classes are: ownership of the medium, the medium’s funding sources, sourcing, flak, and anti-communism or “fear ideology”.

Flak: ‘negative responses to a media statement or [TV or radio] program.

Anti-communism is a political movement and ideology opposed to communism.