Manufacturing Consent
The Political Economy of the Mass Media
A seminal media analysis by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that proposes a propaganda model. It argues that the mass media in the United States serves elite interests by filtering news through five institutional filters—such as ownership, advertising, and sourcing—to manufacture public consent for corporate and government policies.
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Ranked #212 of 1942 · 412 pages · Published 1988 · Nonfiction / Politics & media
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Everett lists the first Chomsky books he read, including "the media one", Manufacturing Consent.
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Book data: ISBN 9780375714498. Page count from Open Library (median of editions). Cover via Open Library Covers.