
March 1989 www.amazon.com Watch the full lecture: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, first published in 1988. The title derives from the phrase the manufacture of consent that essayisteditor Walter Lippmann (1889-74) employed in the book Public Opinion (1922). Using the propaganda model, Manufacturing Consent posits that corporate-owned news mass communication media - print, radio, television - are businesses subject to commercial competition for advertising revenue and profit. As such, their distortion (editorial bias) of news reportage - ie what types of news, which items, and how they are reported - is consequence of the profit motive that requires establishing a stable, profitable business; therefore, news businesses favoring profit over the public interest succeed, whilst those favoring reportorial accuracy over profits fail, and are relegated to the margins of their markets (low sales and ratings). Editorial distortion is aggravated by the news medias dependence upon private and governmental news sources. If a given newspaper, television station, magazine, et cetera, incurs governmental disfavor, it usually is subtly excluded from access to information (news); resultantly, its competitors receive biased, preferential access. Consequently, the excluded news medium loses readers, viewers, and subscribers, hence its market-place business-leadership when it loses <b>...</b>
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