jacky finished reading Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
In this work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual …
Hell of a read. This is also sobering to see with the afterword focus on the Iraq and Iran war.
@jacky I was surprised how much this book turned out to be about US foreign policy as opposed to the workings of the media in general. They could easily have used domestic examples for the concept of manufacturing consent as well. For example, the recent manufacturing of consent to push Biden to drop out. (Not knocking it; I learned a lot)
@graue I see what you're getting at, tbh. I wonder if that might have turned off some folks and made it too divisive. I imagine that folks wouldn't imagine that we'd be lied to domestically, I imagine, but the only way to really know what's happening abroad is to watch the news; unless you have a persistent connection to the such.