Has the Internet Changed the Propaganda Model?

PR Watch by Sheldon Rampton | May. 22, 2007 (Opinion)

In their groundbreaking 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent,
professors Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky not only explained, but documented with extensive case studies, how mass media and public opinion are shaped in a democracy. Twenty years later, can their "propaganda model" still be used to explain modern media distortions? That was one of the main questions discussed last week at a conference in Windsor, Ontario titled "20 Years of Propaganda?" Organized ... Full Story »

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 by James Ivers - Oct. 1, 2008

Rampton gives away the story when he mentions his experience and then embraces with no apparent caveats the Herman/Chomsky theory. Evidently, propaganda consists of passing information Rampton and/or Herman/Chomsky either don't like, don't agree with, or don't think is presented the way they would like. It is thus totally unobvious what any of them think would work better. Possibly world-wide versions of Pravda and Izvestia.

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