Description:A POWERFUL ASSESSMENT OF HOW THE US MASS MEDIA FAIL TO PROVIDE THE KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They 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 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 groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. To get started finding Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
432
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Vintage Books
Release
2006
ISBN
0099533111
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Description: A POWERFUL ASSESSMENT OF HOW THE US MASS MEDIA FAIL TO PROVIDE THE KIND OF INFORMATION THAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They 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 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 groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. To get started finding Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.