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The Political Economy of the Mass Media
EDWARD S. HERMAN
and NOAM CHOMSKY
With a new afterword by Edward S. Herman
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Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
By the Same Authors
Tables
Introduction to the 2002 Edition
Preface
1 A Propaganda Model
2 Worthy and Unworthy Victims
3 Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua
4 The KGB-Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope: Free-Market Disinformation as “News”
5 The Indochina Wars (I): Vietnam
6 The Indochina Wars (II): Laos and Cambodia
7 Conclusions
Afterword to the 2008 Edition
Appendix 1
The U.S. Official Observers in Guatemala, July 1–2, 1984
Appendix 2
Tagliabue’s Finale on the Bulgarian Connection: A Case Study in Bias
Appendix 3
Braestrup’s Big Story: Some “Freedom House Exclusives”
Notes
About the Author
Index
TO THE MEMORY OF ALEX CAREY
AND
HERBERT I. SCHILLER
By the same authors
The Political Economy of Human Rights:
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
The Political Economy of Human Rights 2:
After the Cataclysm
The Iran-contra scandals were blamed on the President’s easygoing habits, though the people had every opportunity to know this was his way of doing things or not doing before they put him in the White House, not once but twice.
James Reston
They who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness.
John Milton
Tables
Mainstream Media Usage of “Genocide” for Kosovo, East Timor, Turkey, and Iraq
1–1 Financial Data for Twenty-four Large Media Corporations (or Their Parent Firms), December 1986
1–2 Wealth of the Control Groups of Twenty-four Large Media Corporations (or Their Parent Companies), February 1986
1–3 Affiliations of the Outside Directors of Ten Large Media Companies (or Their Parents) in 1986
1–4 Experts on Terrorism and Defense on