Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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Author: Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1988-09-12
ISBN: 0679720340
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Pantheon
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Book Review: "[A]rguably the most important intellectual alive"
Summary: 4 Stars
A modern classic in political science, Manufacturing Consent does a thorough job presenting a case against journalistic objectivity. With a hefty amount of scholarship and clarity, Chomsky ("arguably the most important intellectual alive", according to the New York Times) and Herman illustrate the incentive structures of the mass media (their analysis was published before the popularization of the internet) and how such structures lead to collusion between the press and government. In other words, many of us are unwitting victims of government proganda aimed at maintaining the existing power structure. As much as it sounds like a conspiricy theory, don't dismiss it until you have read it. Chomsky and Herman present a compelling propaganda model that, while you may not agree with the conslusions completely, may give you further insight into the machinations of the democracy that we are all live in.
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