Noam Chomsky Edward S Herman Manufacturing Consent (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Further DetailsTitle: Manufacturing ConsentCondition: NewEAN: 9780099533115ISBN: 9780099533115Publisher: VintageFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/20/1995Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 26mmItem Weight: 298gAuthor: Noam Chomsky, Edward S HermanLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Political Economy of the Mass MediaISBN-10: 0099533111Description:

A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.This book reveals how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the double standards underlying accounts of free elections, a free press, and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam; between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and genocide under Pol Pot.What emerges from this ground-breaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media can be, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way.

Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Films & TVTopic: Social Sciences, Language & Reference, Law & Politics, Society & CultureRelease Year: 1995

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