{"product_id":"9780375714498","title":"Manufacturing Consent","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \"compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review) \u003c\/i\u003edue to the \u003cb\u003eunderlying economics of publishing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003efrom famed scholars Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. With a new introduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this pathbreaking work, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir 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.","brand":"Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2002-01-15","offer_id":44544808288511,"sku":"9780375714498","price":29.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7b276281-6034-4bc6-8c12-e8733ffcf40a.jpg?v=1700759628","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780375714498","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}