Author: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
Translator: Kyong-ok Jeong
Publisher: EcoLivre
Hardcover | 640 pages | 223*152mm
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About This Book
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.
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