| Description |
xvi, 412 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
A propaganda model -- Worthy and unworthy victims -- Legitimizing versus meaningless Third World elections : El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua -- The KGB-Bulgarian plot to kill the Pope : free-market disinformation as "news" -- The Indochina wars (I) : Vietnam -- The Indochina wars (II) : Laos and Cambodia -- Conclusions -- 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 -- Baestrup's Big Story : some "Freedom House exclusives." |
| Summary |
Discusses the ways in which the mass media are manipulated to present the news according to an underlying elite consenus which affects the manner in which similar events in different parts of the world are presented |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [331]-393 |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Objectivity -- United States.
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Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
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Propaganda, American.
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World politics -- 1975-1985.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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World politics -- 1985-1995.
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| Author |
Chomsky, Noam.
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| LC no. |
88042614 |
| ISBN |
0394549260 |
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0679720340 |
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