About the Book: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the 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