Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman with Noam Chomsky

480 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced

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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...

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