He mentions that earlier in the book. How My Lai was actually just a relatively tame example of business as usual in Vietnam, and that didn't get published until years later. The coverage was fawning and praising US empire the whole time and the resistance had nothing to do with the media (maybe some more radical/underground papers that helped organize protest marches and stuff).
Yes, I am aware. The book (Manufacturing Consent) fails to draw really robust conclusions and outline the class antagonisms behind the media narratives though. Parenti did a better job of tying the threads together and writing something actually challenging the power behind media narratives.
Manufacturing Consent is good, but it's still kinda toothless compared to Inventing Reality.
Basically a complete history of American/Imperialist news media, their propaganda tactics, their class composition, their methods of control (both control of reporters and readers), the efficacy of that control, the consequences of that propaganda, and the imperialist nature of even the "leftists" in imperial media.
Reading this, it feels like Chomsky skimmed the introduction and wrote a book that would actually get published. This one has been out of print since it was published the first time in 1992. (Still available on libgen and his website)
He mentions that earlier in the book. How My Lai was actually just a relatively tame example of business as usual in Vietnam, and that didn't get published until years later. The coverage was fawning and praising US empire the whole time and the resistance had nothing to do with the media (maybe some more radical/underground papers that helped organize protest marches and stuff).
Manufacturing Consent? Yes, I was drawing from that a bit
Inventing Reality, Chomsky never went this deep.
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Yes, I am aware. The book (Manufacturing Consent) fails to draw really robust conclusions and outline the class antagonisms behind the media narratives though. Parenti did a better job of tying the threads together and writing something actually challenging the power behind media narratives.
Manufacturing Consent is good, but it's still kinda toothless compared to Inventing Reality.
Will have to put that one on my list. What all does it cover?
Basically a complete history of American/Imperialist news media, their propaganda tactics, their class composition, their methods of control (both control of reporters and readers), the efficacy of that control, the consequences of that propaganda, and the imperialist nature of even the "leftists" in imperial media.
Reading this, it feels like Chomsky skimmed the introduction and wrote a book that would actually get published. This one has been out of print since it was published the first time in 1992. (Still available on libgen and his website)