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Manufacturing consent : the political economy of the mass media

Edward S. Herman (Author), Noam Chomsky (Author)
Discusses the ways in which the mass media are manipulated to present the news according to an underlying elite consenus which affects the manner in which similar events in different parts of the world are presented
Print Book, English, ©1988
Pantheon Books, New York, ©1988
xvi, 412 pages ; 25 cm
9780394549262, 9780679720348, 0394549260, 0679720340
17877574
A propaganda model
Worthy and unworthy victims
Legitimizing versus meaningless Third World elections : El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua
The KGB-Bulgarian plot to kill the Pope : free-market disinformation as "news"
The Indochina wars (I) : Vietnam
The Indochina wars (II) : Laos and Cambodia
Conclusions
Appendix 1 : The U.S. official observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984
Appendix 2 : Tagliabue's finale on the Bulgarian connection : a case study in bias
Baestrup's Big Story : some "Freedom House exclusives."