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Manufacturing consent : the political economy of the mass media /

By: Herman, Edward S.
Contributor(s): Chomsky, Noam.
Publisher: London : Vintage, 1994Description: xvi, 412 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0099533111; 9780099533115:; 9780099533115.Subject(s): Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States | World politics -- 1975-1985 | World politics -- 1985-1995 | Public opinion -- United States | Mass media -- United States -- ObjectivityDDC classification: 323.445 HER
Contents:
1. A Propaganda Model --- 2. Worthy and Unworthy Victims --- 3. Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua --- 4. The KGB--Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as "News" --- 5. The Indochina Wars (I): Vietnam --- 6. The Indochina Wars (II): Laos and Cambodia --- 7. Conclusions ---- Appendix 1. The U.S. Official Observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984 --- Appendix 2. Tagliabue's Finale on the Bulgarian Connection: A Case Study in Bias --- Appendix 3. Braestrup's Big Story: Some "Freedom House Exclusives."
Summary: The authors set out to show that an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. The result is an account of the propagandist nature of the communications media, and of how they can be read, and their function interpreted, in a new way.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A Propaganda Model --- 2. Worthy and Unworthy Victims --- 3. Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua --- 4. The KGB--Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as "News" --- 5. The Indochina Wars (I): Vietnam --- 6. The Indochina Wars (II): Laos and Cambodia --- 7. Conclusions ---- Appendix 1. The U.S. Official Observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984 --- Appendix 2. Tagliabue's Finale on the Bulgarian Connection: A Case Study in Bias --- Appendix 3. Braestrup's Big Story: Some "Freedom House Exclusives."

The authors set out to show that an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. The result is an account of the propagandist nature of the communications media, and of how they can be read, and their function interpreted, in a new way.

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