1) What does Marxism suggest regarding power in society? The Marxism theory suggests that the mass media in maintaining the status quo, suggesting power is concentrated in the hands of a narrow elite . The larger companies make lower classes rely on them to regulate the power consistently. 2) Why is The Apprentice a good example of the media reinforcing capitalist values and ideologies? Every week the people with less power than the bosses are sent out with the objective of making as much money as possible in order to please the people in charge. Alan Sugar, a white male that dresses in suits on every occasion we see him, holds all the power over the 20 regular people. This is a micro representation of society according to Marxists- A few people hold all the power over a mass of people. 3) Come up with three examples of media texts (e.g. TV programmes, newspapers etc.) that either fetishise working class life (e.g. EastEnders presents quite a harmonious East End community which prob
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