Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent torrent

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Written by: Edward S. Herman , Noam Chomsky
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:04-18-17
Publisher: Tantor Audio

Publisher's Summary

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 US 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.
©2002 Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky (P)2017 Tantor

What the Critics Say

"[A] compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century." (New York Times)