Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman Paperback Book

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Rent Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Author: Edward S. Herman

Narrator: Noam Chomsky

Format: Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Published: Apr 2017

Genre: Social Science - Media Studies

Retail Price: $29.99

Discs: 1

Synopsis

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, 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.

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