The Political Economy of the Mass Media
This depicts how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. Chomsky and Herman skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed and topics chosen, and contrast the double standards underlying accounts of free elections and a free press. What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can lean to read them and see their function in a radically new way.
