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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Book
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Amazon Review
An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agendas of knowledge and, therefore, belief. Contrary to the popular conception of members of the press as hard-bitten realists doggedly pursuing unpopular truths, Herman and Chomsky prove conclusively that the free-market economics model of media leads inevitably to normative and narrow reporting. Whether or not you've seen the eye-opening movie, buy this book, and you will be a far more knowledgeable person and much less prone to having your beliefs manipulated as easily as the press.
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Product Description
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 studiesâ??including the mediaâ??s dichotomous treatment of â??worthyâ? versus â??unworthyâ? victims, â??legitimizingâ? and â??meaninglessâ? Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochinaâ??Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the mediaâ??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 mediaâ??s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the mediaâ??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.
- 0375714499
- 9780375714498
- Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
- 1 January 2002
- Pantheon Books Inc
- Paperback (Book)
- 480
- New edition
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