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An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news. A "compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions" (The New York Times Book Review) due to the underlying economics of publishing—from famed scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction.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 c

Who reads Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media?

Author

Edward S. Herman; Noam Chomsky

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299044678

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.22 / 5 (185 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14