TY - BOOK AU - Herman,Edward S. AU - Chomsky,Noam TI - Manufacturing consent : : the political economy of the mass media SN - 9780375714498 U1 - 302.23 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Pantheon Books, KW - Mass media and propaganda KW - Mass media KW - Ownership KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes index; Ch. 1. A propaganda model -- Ch. 2. Worthy and unworthy victims -- Ch. 3. Legitimizing versus meaningless third world elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua -- Ch. 4. The KGB_Burgarian plot to kill the Pope: free-market disinformation as "news" -- Ch. 5. The Indochina wars (I): Vietnam -- Ch. 6. The Indochina wars (II): Laos and Cambodia -- Ch. 7. Conclusion N2 - Shows that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order ER -