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Manufacturing Consent
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407054056
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464

Manufacturing Consent

The Political Economy of the Mass Media

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24 Feb 2026
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7 Feb 1995
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1 July 2010
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A detailed and compelling political study of how elite forces shape mass media

The classic 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.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407054056
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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About the authors

Edward S Herman

Edward S. Herman is Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Among his books are Corporate Control, Corporate Power; The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda; Demonstration Elections: U. S.-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam and El Salvador (with Frank Brodhead), The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection (with Frank Brodhead) and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Noam Chomsky).

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Praise for Manufacturing Consent

Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust power and delusions; he goes against every assumption about American altruism and humanitarianism.

Edward Said

Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare, and the Bible as one of the ten most quoted sources in the humanities-and is the only writer among them still alive.

Guardian

Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive.

New York Times

Not to have read [Chomsky] is to court genuine ignorance.

Nation

A rebel without a pause.

Bono