Book · 1988 · Nonfiction
Manufacturing Consent
Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
Pantheon Books (Penguin Random House) · 407 pages
★ 6.8 editorial score
The press needs no censors, Herman and Chomsky argue: ownership, advertisers, official sources and the fear of blowback filter the news first. Every argument about media bias since has had to answer them.
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