Myth of the Liberal Media

The Propaganda Model of News

Duration: 60 min
ISBN: 1-893521-56-7
Date Produced: 1997

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Myth of the Liberal Media
The Propaganda Model of News

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish one of the central tenets of our political culture, the idea of the "liberal media." Instead, utilizing a systematic model based on massive empirical research, they reveal the manner in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and conservative interests that their function can only be described as that of "elite propaganda."

"If you want to understand the way a system works, you look at its institutional structure. How it is organized, how it is controlled, how it is funded." -Noam Chomsky

"The Mainstream media really represent elite interests, and what the propaganda model tries to do is stipulate a set of institutional variables, reflecting this elite power, that very powerfully influence the media." -Edward Herman

Sections: The Propaganda Model & Agenda Setting | The Ownership Filter | The Advertising Filter | The Newsmakers Filter | The News Shapers Filter | The Flak Filter | The Attack on the Welfare State | The Attack on Social Security | The Attack on Health Care | Labor & Business | Anti-Communism & The Free Market | Anti-Communism & The Free Market: Russia | Anti-Communism & The Free Market: Cuba | Dictators & Democracy | Dictators & Democracy: Saddam Hussein | Dictators & Democracy: Suharto

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Producer, Director: Sut Jhally
Line Producer, Editor: Katherine Sender
Assistant Editor: Sanjay Talreja
Camera: Robert Massey, David Rabinovitz & Mark Tebo
Sound: John Hawkes
Animation: Sanjay Talreja
Graphics: Kim Neumann & Matthew Soar