La fabbrica del consenso. La politica e i mass media

The illusion of a mature, open minded awareness is a constructed propaganda model. Reread 2021 with extended review In modern media, it´s important to never let the uncomfortable and in-depth facts crawl too close to the light, and to achieve this it´s best to mention them in the shortest newsflashes Leggi tutto

I passed up a chance to buy this book some twenty years ago, and have not been able to locate a copy since. It's a shame, because Chomsky talks about how the so-called "free" press is anything but free: they are bent on fabricating news to manufacture consent among the populace to further their corp Leggi tutto

On the even more intellectual edge of the left, Noam Chomsky has relentlessly fought against the blindness of American foreign policy and how the press manipulates public opinion to endorse and encourage catastrophes such as the Vietnam War (and more recently, the disaster of the two Iraq Wars, the

Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic. Once, I worked at a market research firm that specialized in print media. I learned quite a few things. For one, there are magazines and journals for everything—from fly-fishing to industrial food-processing equipment, from alpaca farming

Let's unpack this modern classic on the role of propaganda in perpetuating imperialism: The Good : --While "Manufacturing Consent" has become a subtitle to "Noam Chomsky", Herman seems to be the primary author of this book. Nevertheless, I felt the need to go through Chomsky's most-read book to evaluat Leggi tutto

In Manufacturing Consent, Herman and Chomsky present an outdated and flawed thesis asserting government and corporate control over mass media to promote a right-wing agenda, yet still makes some valid points regarding propaganda in the media. By cherry-picking a handful of egregious media missteps r Leggi tutto

Politicians are like hookers. You can't be one unless you can pretend to like people while you're fucking them. In summary the propaganda model works like this: Bullshit politician with biased information is seen as an expert. Expert gives bullshit to news organization to inform the public. News org Leggi tutto

A well-researched and eye-opening book. It came as no wonder to me that the U.S. government basically screws over every other nation which is deemed not Capitalist/Neo-liberal enough, or is not an ally and thus whatever atrocities committed within its borders are acceptable, as this does not serve t Leggi tutto