Noam Chomsky · Politics
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman’s account of how the mass media in a free society <em>manufacture</em> public consent - not by censorship or force, but through five structural ‘filters’ (ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, and a mobilizing enemy) that quietly screen the news before it reaches you.
You learned that Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model explains how privately owned, free-market media end up serving power - through five filters (concentrated ownership, advertising revenue, reliance on official sources, ‘flak,’ and a mobilizing enemy) that screen the news without formal censorship…
Leads to Walter Lippmann.
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