Manufacturing Consent

media as apparatusfive-filter pressureelite consensus

Director

Edward S. Herman

Year

1988

Region

United States

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

Synopsis

Discusses the ways in which the mass media are manipulated to present the news according to an underlying elite consenus which affects the manner in which similar events in different parts of the world are presented.

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media as apparatus media as apparatus five-filter pressure

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Edward S. Herman, 1988 — Manufacturing Consent

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Restates power in a sharper essay register.

This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.

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