Contrary to the usual image of the press as cantankerous,\nobstinate, and ubiquitous in its search for truth, Edward Herman\nand Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely\nstructures all facets of the news. They skillfully dissect the way\nin which the marketplace and the economics of publishing\nsignificantly shape the news. They reveal how issues are framed and\ntopics chosen. What emerges from this pathbreaking work is an\naccount of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we\ncan learn ro read them and see their funtion in a radically new\nway.

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