(P/B) MANUFACTURING CONSENT

Παρουσίαση

We normally think that the press are cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth. In Manufacturing Consent Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky show how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. Far from challenging established power, the media work hard to discover and mirror its assumptions. The authors skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed and topics chosen, and contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, and governmental repression. The authors conclude that the modern mass media can best be understood in terms of a 'propaganda model'. News and entertainment companies dedicate themselves to profit within the established system. Their interests require that they support the governing assumptions of state and private power. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
A Propaganda Model
Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua
The KGB-Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as "News"
The Indochina Wars (I): Vietnam
The Indochina Wars (II): Laos and Cambodia
Conclusions
APPENDIXES 1-3
The U.S. Official
Observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984
Tagliabue's Finale on the Bulgarian Connection: A Case Study in Bias
Braestrup's Big Story: Some "Freedom House Exclusives"
Notes
Index