Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Audible Audio Edition) Edward S Herman Noam Chomsky John Pruden Tantor Audio Books
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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 US 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.
Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Audible Audio Edition) Edward S Herman Noam Chomsky John Pruden Tantor Audio Books
This book changed the way I see my country, and its place in history. The specific information it gives about US involvement in S. America clarified events that had been on my radar, but that I had never taken the time to read about specifically.The virtual side-by-side comparison of the media's treatment of the rape and murder of four US citizens working as nuns in the a US client state and the torture and murder of a Polish dissident priest is typical of the method by which they highlight how the media favors "worthy"victims, (coincidentally all murdered by regimes not friendly to us) and "unworthy" victims, sadly, unavoidably, somehow made victims of the disorder in our client states. Other examples include comparing media coverage of E. Timor to that of Kosovo, and how the media narratives and meta-narratives shifted over the course of US involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia.
That said, the book was a challenge to read. I find history and politics quite interesting, but the authors belabored their points (as an academic might, understandably, need to) far beyond the patience of a person reading the book in his spare time might be willing to tolerate. I eventually finished it, but just this once I'm excusing myself from the appendices. I feel the points they had to make were well made by page 70, and while it was all informative and solidly researched, I'm nearly giddy to close the cover on this one.
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Manufacturing Consent The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Audible Audio Edition) Edward S Herman Noam Chomsky John Pruden Tantor Audio Books Reviews
An extraordinarily illuminating read that details the myriad ways in which the mainstream media internalize the propaganda system of corporate and US government voices by (consciously or not) subtly and insidiously reframing the debate and the ethics that shade those debates. Using two main examples of wars in the 70s/80s in IndoChina and Central America, the authors present a coherent and detailed argument that the "spreading of democracy" is often genocide, but by failing to objectively report events or by dividing casualties into "worthy" and "unworthy" groups, the media is complicit in the fallout of US aggression genocide, famine, the suppression of democracy in client states (while claiming to spread freedom!). Almost invariably the US sides with a wealthy elite in any given country, and the poverty-stricken population fights back. We fund the suppressors with money and weapons, eradicating as much of the local population as we can even (into the hundred of thousands) until there's no dissent left. But you'd never read it that way in the newspapers of the day.
Every American who thinks he knows what's going on in the world needs to read this book, and every American who has NO IDEA what's going on in the world needs to read it. Although Chomsky's examples may seem dated, the patterns they describe are as visible in 2017 as they were when he wrote the book.
This is a must read for anyone and everyone who cares about Democracy. Democracy can not exist without a free and independent media; Noam Chomsky proves his case that our media is anything but free and independent. This was written in 1987 but is even more true today, now that, thanks to deregulation, only six companies own 98% of the total media. This book highlights many of the propaganda tactics used in order to demonize those countries which challenge U.S. policy and say nice things about despots who go along with U.S. policy. There is a large section on the Vietnam war which illustrates this very well.
It's not a fun read by any means, but I am incredibly grateful to have read this book. It is dry and academic, yet the clarity of its reasoning, the horror implicit in its conclusions and the endless march of its shocking historical evidence leave an indelible impact.
Much like when I learned the theory of evolution by natural selection, I am left unable to see the world the same way again. And much the same as Darwin, Chomsky's explanation requires no grand conspiracy of intelligent design, the result simply emerges naturally from the workings of the system.
Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the modern world and who wants to consider how the future may be steered in a better direction.
This book changed the way I see my country, and its place in history. The specific information it gives about US involvement in S. America clarified events that had been on my radar, but that I had never taken the time to read about specifically.
The virtual side-by-side comparison of the media's treatment of the rape and murder of four US citizens working as nuns in the a US client state and the torture and murder of a Polish dissident priest is typical of the method by which they highlight how the media favors "worthy"victims, (coincidentally all murdered by regimes not friendly to us) and "unworthy" victims, sadly, unavoidably, somehow made victims of the disorder in our client states. Other examples include comparing media coverage of E. Timor to that of Kosovo, and how the media narratives and meta-narratives shifted over the course of US involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia.
That said, the book was a challenge to read. I find history and politics quite interesting, but the authors belabored their points (as an academic might, understandably, need to) far beyond the patience of a person reading the book in his spare time might be willing to tolerate. I eventually finished it, but just this once I'm excusing myself from the appendices. I feel the points they had to make were well made by page 70, and while it was all informative and solidly researched, I'm nearly giddy to close the cover on this one.
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