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What’s Politics #5 - Manufacturing Consent: Media is God
What's Politics is a series where we delve into political concepts, ideas, and questions and explore how they impact all of us.
In their 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman argued that mass communication media “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion."
The book, which is more than 30 years old, still rings incredibly true today. In fact, things have…
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