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Manufacturing Consent

The Political Economy of the Mass Media

The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

By Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

By Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

By Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

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Jan 15, 2002 | ISBN 9780375714498

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Jul 06, 2011 | ISBN 9780307801623

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    About Manufacturing Consent

    In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.

    Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.

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    An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.

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    About Noam Chomsky

    NOAM CHOMSKY is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the M.I.T. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having… More about Noam Chomsky

    About Noam Chomsky

    NOAM CHOMSKY is Institute Professor (Emeritus) in the M.I.T. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. His work is widely credited with having… More about Noam Chomsky

    Product Details

    Category: Politics

    Paperback | $21.00
    Published by Pantheon
    Jan 15, 2002 | 480 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780375714498

    Category: Politics

    Ebook | $15.99
    Published by Pantheon
    Jul 06, 2011 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780307801623

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    Praise

    "[A] compelling indictment of the news media’s role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century."–Walter LaFeber, The New York Times Book Review

    Table Of Contents

    Introduction xi
    Preface lix

    1. A Propaganda Model 1
    2. Worthy and Unworthy Victims 37
    3. Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua 87
    4. The KGB-Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as “News” 143
    5. The Indochina Wars (I): Vietnam 169
    6. The Indochina Ware (II): Laos and Cambodia 253
    7. Conclusions 297
    Appendix 1: The U.S. Official Observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984 309
    Appendix 2: Tagliabue’s Finale on the Bulgarian Connection: A Case Study in Bian 313
    Appendix 3: Braestrup’s Big Story: Some “Freedom House Exclusives” 321

    Notes 331
    Index 395

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