Has the Internet Changed the Propaganda Model?

PR Watch by Sheldon Rampton | May. 22, 2007 (Opinion)

In their groundbreaking 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent,
professors Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky not only explained, but documented with extensive case studies, how mass media and public opinion are shaped in a democracy. Twenty years later, can their "propaganda model" still be used to explain modern media distortions? That was one of the main questions discussed last week at a conference in Windsor, Ontario titled "20 Years of Propaganda?" Organized ... Full Story »

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by David Starr - Oct. 1, 2008

Interesting story. The author tends to class virtually all news as "propaganda", by which he means political slant with which he does not agree. He quotes Noam Chomsky heavily. I cannot say I agree with much in the story, but it is an interesting read. It is not what I think of as "journalism", writing about who,what,where,and when, it's more of an essay on the nature of propaganda.