Extending and refining the propaganda model
@inproceedings{Sparks2007ExtendingAR, title={Extending and refining the propaganda model}, author={Colin Sparks}, year={2007} }
The ‘propaganda model’ of news production in capitalist democracies elaborated by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1988 was met with initial hostile criticism and then more or less complete neglect. In the last five years, there has been a renewal of interest, although opinion remains seriously divided. This article adopts a sympathetic stance towards the main ideas of the model, but suggests that there are a number of ways in which in its classical iteration it is insufficiently sensitive…
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