Manufacturing Consent

The news media are normally perceived as obstinate, cantankerous, and ubiquitous in their defense of justice and search for truth. Manufacturing Consent is a groundbreaking work drawing on decades of research and criticism to explain the media's performance and behavior. It proposes a Propaganda Model, a powerful evaluation of how propagandist the mass media are—how they regularly fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world. This book also lays out how we can understand their function in a radically new way.