Has the Internet Changed the Propaganda Model?

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 Bob Vermeers - Oct. 1, 2008

It is good journalism because it explores the many facets of the forces emanating from e-journalism.

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