Publications

Manufacturing Consent

Type
Link
Cost
Paid
Published
1988
Updated
2011
Full Name
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

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.

"[A] compelling indictment of the news media's role in covering up errors and deceptions in American foreign policy of the past quarter century."

⁠— Walter LaFeber, The New York Times Book Review