Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward S. Herman
Discover how the news media defends the agendas of privileged groups that dominate society in Manufacturing Consent. This groundbreaking work by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky offers a powerful assessment of the media's propagandistic behaviors and their failure to provide necessary information to make sense of the world. Updated with new case studies, including coverage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and protests against the World Trade Organization, this book proposes a Propaganda Model to explain the media's performance.
Publish Date
2002-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
2002-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1988
Goodreads Rating
4.24
ISBN
9780375714498
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2020-07-05T15:14:08.000Z
@GadSaad @KimKardashian @elonmusk Chomsky was wrong about much, but 'Manufacturing Consent' was a brilliant & insightful book that's more relevant than ever to our propaganda-dominated 'democracy'. IMHO. – source