Manufacturing consent : the political economy of the mass media
Herman, Edward S.2006
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The authors set out to show that an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. The result is an account of the propagandist nature of the communications media, and of how they can be read, and their function interpreted, in a new way. A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.This book reveals how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and genocide under Pol Pot.What emerges from this ground-breaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media can be, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way.
Main title:
Manufacturing consent : the political economy of the mass media / Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage, 1994.
Collation:
xvi, 412 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1988.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780099533115 (pbk)
Dewey class:
302.230973
Language:
English
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BRN:
2968914