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"The media serve ... to inculcate and defend the economic, social, and political agenda of privileged groups. The 'propaganda model' identifies five filters through which news passes."
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Herman & Chomsky — Manufacturing Consent
Herman & Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent (1988)
Author
Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky
Date
1988
Credibility & evidentiary value

Influential structural critique of mass media via a five-filter 'propaganda model.' Strongly argued and strongly contested; read critically.

Citation · Chicago

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (New York: Pantheon, 1988).

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Scholarly SynthesisThe Propaganda Model: Five Filters of the NewsHistorical AnalysisIntelligence and the Press: The Mockingbird Question
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