Pantheon Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Excelentt producto, excedds my expectations

Although this is a great books you can't just straight away read and finish this , requires some prior knowledge about the concerned subject here

This is the classic work published by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1994 that explains how the function of the news media is to manufacture political consent rather than to report actual news. This is not to say that the media do not report news, but what they report or don't report—and how it is reported—depends largely upon whether or not it works to manufacture public consent to the "narrative" (as it's called nowadays) being pushed by national governments. The subtitle of the book is "The Political Economy of the Mass Media" suggesting in part that the behavior of those media is in large part money-driven. This was not a new idea when the book was written; it's value lies rather in the nature and depth of the authors' analysis. It is definitely worth reading, although the situation has worsened considerably since 1994, largely in the degree to which the corporate media resort to outright lying rather than "creative distortion and selectivity" compared to the days of yore; they are evidently driven to this by the extraordinarily and insanely fantastic—and therefore inherently fragile—nature of the "narrative" which it is currently their mission to defend. It's a shame that Chomsky is now 96 years old, because we need a new book that goes on for where Manufacturing Consent left off and he's probably too tired of it all to write it.

Great book

Esse livro deve ser lido por todos os que desejam compreender como a mídia exerce um papel importante na dominação em favor dos grupos econômico-financeiros. Essa edição (2002) do livro original (1988) conta com uma nova "Introdução" em que traz novas referências acerca do tema.