Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, (Paperback)

from jeffjardine

With the recent growth of the PR industry, Manufacturing Consent is even more important now than it was when first published in 1988. Chomsky has repeated many times that the propaganda model of the West does not require a conspiracy. This book is a thorough - and thoroughly brilliant - explanati...

from Archibald5555

The classic elucidation of the propaganda system. A must read for anyone interesting in understanding how propaganda in free societies works.

from Daedalus

Rarely have I read something that so completely shifted my social paradigms.

from Gramsci

This is an eye-opening critique of the American mass media. Chomsky asserts that media select what to mention and what not to mention in order to reflect the interests of what he calls the "buyer, the seller, and the product." In his propaganda model, the buyer is not the consumer, rather, the "b...

from jcook818

One of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's more substantial written contributions, Manufacturing Consent details a framework dubbed the "propaganda model," which can determine or explain many factors of media reporting found deficient, biased, or just plain incompetent. I found this book to be a poi...