Just saw
Manufacturing Consent again last night (great movie) and just realized it was possibly the first instance of somebody referring to the media as "the filter".
He seems to be using it in clips from the seventies. Anybody know of any use of it before this?
I'm curious as to whether Bush is intentionally using that term as a way to get it's inference to mean a liberal filter - rather than the corporate elite interest filter that Chomsky talks about. Maybe something Frank Luntz advised him to do.