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Herman, Edward S.
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Mass media -- Ownership.
Mass media and propaganda.
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Herman, Edward S.
Mass media -- Ownership.
Mass media and propaganda.
MARC Display
Manufacturing
consent
: the
political
economy
of the
mass
media
/ Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky ; with a new introduction by the authors.
by
Herman, Edward S.
Pantheon Books, 2002.
Call #:
302.2309 H551m
Subjects
Mass
media
-- Ownership.
Mass
media
and propaganda.
ISBN:
9780375714498 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Political
economy
of the
mass
media
Description:
lxiv, 412 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Updated edition of:
Manufacturing
consent
. 1st edition c1988.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Preface -- Propaganda model -- Worthy and unworthy victims -- Legitimizing versus meaningless third world elections : El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua -- KGB-Bulgarian plot to kill the Pope : free-market disinformation as "news" -- Indochina wars (I) : Vietnam -- Indochina wars (II) : Laos and Cambodia -- Conclusions -- app. 1. US official observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984 -- app. 2. Tagliabue's finale on the Bulgarian connection: a case study in bias -- app. 3. Braestrup's big story: some "freedom house exclusives" -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
"In this path breaking 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. 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."--Publisher's description.
Other authors:
Chomsky, Noam.
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