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Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (2002, Trade Paperback)

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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 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.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375714499
ISBN-13
9780375714498
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1902525

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Book Title
Manufacturing Consent : the Political Economy of the Mass Media
Author
Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Media & Internet, Media Studies, Censorship
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
P96.E25h47 2002
Reviews
"[A] compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century."--Walter LaFeber, The New York Times Book Review
Table of Content
Introduction xi Preface lix 1. A Propaganda Model 1 2. Worthy and Unworthy Victims 37 3. Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua 87 4. The KGB-Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as "News" 143 5. The Indochina Wars (I): Vietnam 169 6. The Indochina Ware (II): Laos and Cambodia 253 7. Conclusions 297 Appendix 1: The U.S. Official Observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984 309 Appendix 2: Tagliabue's Finale on the Bulgarian Connection: A Case Study in Bian 313 Appendix 3: Braestrup's Big Story: Some "Freedom House Exclusives" 321 Notes 331 Index 395
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2001-050014
Dewey Decimal
381/.4530223
Dewey Edition
21

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Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (2002, Trade Paperback)

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