“Manufacturing consent” is a concept that was first established in “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” written by the world-renowned linguistics professor and leftist ...

One of my TIME overlords called me this afternoon to say that he had read James Surowiecki’s thoughtful defense of the Geithner plan in the latest New Yorker and Joe Stiglitz’s thoughtful attack on it ...

Did everyone have a nice and relaxing weekend? Sure is nice to unplug for a couple days. Now to take a big sip of coffee as I check the news... I think it'll be helpful to organize our thoughts this ...

Edward S. Herman (co-author with Noam Chomsky of “Manufacturing Consent’): All the problems of the propaganda media model we talked about in the book have grown worse; new media like Real News show ...

Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman wrote Manufacturing Consent in the late 1980s to describe the structural forces which cause an otherwise free media—one lacking government censorship, fear of prison ...

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky gained much notoriety from their seminal book, Manufacturing Consent, more than two decades ago. The central thesis of that book – that political and media elites ...

In 1989, the late King Hussein of Jordan ended a three-decade suspension of parliamentary life by ordering a general election and ushering in a new era of democratisation. Two years later, the country ...

defense. I would like to first note that I was wrong to claim that Cord was attempting to be edgy. I am not a telepath, and it was wrong for me to speculate upon his motives. I apologize for that.