Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky

464 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
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We normally think that the press are cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth. In Manufacturing Consent Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky show how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. Far fro...

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