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Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
Edward S. Herman and Noam
Chomsky.
A lucid analysis of the media's conformity
with the agendas of those in power, this document provides
three in-depth case studies to illustrate the media's propagandistic
role. Professors Herman and Chomsky develop their Propaganda
Model through extensive research of demonstration elections
in Latin America, the plot to kill the Pope in 1981 and
the Indochina wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In each
case, the media played an important role in both filtering
the news that reached the public and supporting the interests
of the governments and corporations that enable the mass
media to thrive. Neither esoteric nor dumbed-down, the scholarly
text is surprisingly easy to read, regardless of the voluminous
research and references. In the end the writing helps the
book to succeed in influencing the reader to think differently
about the media and its message.
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