The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader

by Herman, Edward S.

• ISBN13: 9780820441863
• ISBN10: 0820441864
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Author Biography

Edward S. Herman is Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Noam Chomsky
Introduction: The Illiberal Media	1	(10)
Part 1 The Market System Versus Freedom of Expression	11	(44)
Market System Constraints on Freedom of Expression	13	(10)
The Propaganda Model	23	(8)
The Deepening Market in the West: Commercial Broadcasting on the March	31	(12)
The Media Megamergers	43	(12)
Part 2 News Values, News Papers, News Shapers	55	(100)
The Politics of Newsworthiness	57	(14)
All the News Fit to Print (Part 1): Structure and Background of the New York Times	71	(10)
All the News Fit to Print (Part 2): Biases and Propaganda Service in Covering Foreign Affairs	81	(10)
All the News Fit to Print (Part 3): The Vietnam War	91	(10)
The Wall Street Journal as Propaganda Agency	101	(16)
The Inky and Me: A Study in Market Driven Journalism	117	(14)
David Broder and the Limits of Mainstream Liberalism	131	(24)
Part 3 Media Coverage of Foreign and Domestic Policy	155	(102)
The Media's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Persian Gulf War	157	(14)
Legitimization by Fraudulent Elections	171	(10)
NAFTA, Mexican Meltdown, and the Propaganda System	181	(16)
Carlos and Posada: Their Terrorists and Ours	197	(10)
Suharto: The Fall of a Good Genocidist	207	(24)
Corporate Junk Science in the Media	231	(26)
Part 4 Propaganda and Democracy	257	(60)
The Propaganda Model Revisited	259	(16)
Postmodernism and the Active Audience	275	(8)
Word Tricks and Propaganda	283	(12)
Toward a Democratic Media	295	(22)
Name Index	317	(4)
Subject Index	321