• DOI:10.1007/BF01507710
• Corpus ID: 143939984

What's right (and wrong) about left media criticism? Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model

@article{Goodwin1994WhatsR,
  title={What's right (and wrong) about left media criticism? Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model},
  author={Jeff E. Goodwin},
  journal={Sociological Forum},
  year={1994},
  volume={9},
  pages={101-111}
}

• J. Goodwin
• Published 1 March 1994
• Political Science
• Sociological Forum

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky recently conducted an interesting comparative analysis of the U.S. media's treatment of the case of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a priest murdered in 1984 by the police in thenCommunist Poland, and the media's coverage of the murder of no less than 100 priests and religious activists in Latin America-including the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador in March 1980 and the murder of four North American religious workers in December 1980 by security forces of the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government. Herman and Chomsky found that the Popieluszko case received substantially more coverage by The New York Times, CBS News, and Time and Newsweek magazines then all 100 Latin American victims combined, including, significantly, the four North Americans. Coverage in The New York Times of the Latin American murders amounted to barely half the column inches de-