MANUFACTURING CONSENT
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In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, 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 the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation. What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way. Review: Eye opening reality of mass media explained - Great reading. The print and paper quality is also excellent from vendor Cocoblu Retails in compare to other sellers who are selling a small sized print with too small fonts printed. Review: Great book - Although this is a great books you can't just straight away read and finish this , requires some prior knowledge about the concerned subject here
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V**H
Eye opening reality of mass media explained
Great reading. The print and paper quality is also excellent from vendor Cocoblu Retails in compare to other sellers who are selling a small sized print with too small fonts printed.
K**X
Great book
Although this is a great books you can't just straight away read and finish this , requires some prior knowledge about the concerned subject here
L**A
the world we see is quite different to eyes of ...
the world we see is quite different to eyes of Mr Chomsky however its a masterclass if you have interest in international politics and especially hegemony of USA and its policies then its a must read.
A**R
Such clarity
I've heard videos of Chomsky, and over time I've come to understand the nature of propaganda in a lot of ways. Watching the disintegration of Indian TV media over the last decade has been eye opening and it's led me to try and understand this better. Today when there seems to be a new disinformation war between superpowers, it's a reason to read and reread this book. The systems of power haven't changed much.
A**B
I have learnt how media objectify womens.
This book shows the real face of the world which is hidden by media, means how media is making us to consume more and more useless data. They use women as a carrot and we(consumers) arejust like ass.😂😂😂😂
A**T
Truth about mass media
It is a book one should read in order to understand the media and its motives. It is a great book.
A**R
Bad cover quality. Feels like a pirated book.
Great book
V**Y
An informative read for media students
You can get an indirect insight of how consumerism works for political benifits. Content is not completely irrelevant to current media scenario but I think lots of things have changed in ways to influence general public decisions than how it was in back mid-late 20th century. I also liked the font.
L**C
From Manufacturing Consent to Manufacturing Insanity
This is the classic work published by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1994 that explains how the function of the news media is to manufacture political consent rather than to report actual news. This is not to say that the media do not report news, but what they report or don't report—and how it is reported—depends largely upon whether or not it works to manufacture public consent to the "narrative" (as it's called nowadays) being pushed by national governments. The subtitle of the book is "The Political Economy of the Mass Media" suggesting in part that the behavior of those media is in large part money-driven. This was not a new idea when the book was written; it's value lies rather in the nature and depth of the authors' analysis. It is definitely worth reading, although the situation has worsened considerably since 1994, largely in the degree to which the corporate media resort to outright lying rather than "creative distortion and selectivity" compared to the days of yore; they are evidently driven to this by the extraordinarily and insanely fantastic—and therefore inherently fragile—nature of the "narrative" which it is currently their mission to defend. It's a shame that Chomsky is now 96 years old, because we need a new book that goes on for where Manufacturing Consent left off and he's probably too tired of it all to write it.
A**H
Anspruchsvoll, aber extrem aufschlussreich
Das Buch ist inhaltlich sehr tiefgehend und setzt sich kritisch mit Medien und gesellschaftlichen Strukturen auseinander. Es bietet viele Denkanstöße und eröffnet neue Perspektiven. Der Schreibstil ist nicht immer leicht zugänglich und erfordert Konzentration, dafür wird man mit fundierten Analysen belohnt. Gerade wenn man sich für Politik, Medien oder gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge interessiert, ist das Buch sehr empfehlenswert. Fazit, kein leichtes Lesen, aber inhaltlich stark und absolut lohnenswert.
A**A
I like it
Great book
O**F
Excelente!
Esse livro deve ser lido por todos os que desejam compreender como a mídia exerce um papel importante na dominação em favor dos grupos econômico-financeiros. Essa edição (2002) do livro original (1988) conta com uma nova "Introdução" em que traz novas referências acerca do tema.
M**I
Best insight into mass media state control
Long book to read but full of insight into the phsycology of mass control.
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