01588nam a22002297a 4500 20220405142100.0 220405b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0099533111 AL English 23 302.230973 HERM Edward S Herman and others 27642 Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media London Vintage 1994 xvi,412 p. PB 20x13 cm. 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. Social Science-Media Studies 27643 Mass media -- Political aspects 27644 HERMAN (Edward S) 27645 CHOMSKY (Noam) 27646 ddc GF 222187 222187 0 0 ddc 0 0 JR AL AL 2013-03-24 0 302.230973 HERM GF03035 2022-04-05 00:00:00 2022-04-05 GF