Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Manufacturing Consent Questions – Avery Reyner – September 30, 2012 Manufacturing Consent is a technique of control. Noam Chomsky was first introduced to this concept from an author named Walter Lippmann who wrote about ‘Manufacturer of Consent.’ Chomsky augmented his concept to Manufacturing Concept and the philosophy has become so popular it later became a documentary film produced by two Canadians. Noam Chomsky has been called ‘arguably the greatest intellectual alive' (Fox, 1998) by the New

piece of work titled “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media“, wherein they argued that the mass media carry out propaganda by way of market forces and advertising by effectively selling people to other large conglomerates. As media is financed by marketing and strategic advertising, The Propaganda Model suggests large corporations interact and thrive by directing attention and ultimately prophets at other large corporations. Since “Manufacturing Consent” was published, many

several strategies used by the news media to indoctrinate its consumers into acceptance of the existing societal patterns. "Entertainment," they claim, accustoms the audiences to accept existing society as natural by endlessly repeating and reproducing similar views of the world which present the existing way of life as the way of the world. Adorno and Horkheimer are critical of a form of standardized mass culture that is part of the industrial processes of mass production and consumption within contemporary

case studies outlined by Chomsky & Herman in ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media’, critically assess the main propositions put forward in their analysis of the mass media. Is the ‘Propaganda Model’ still relevant today? Noam Chomsky along with Edward Herman has developed the "Propaganda Model" of the media works. They helped develop the detailed and sophisticated analysis of how the wealthy and powerful use the media to propagandise their own interests behind a mask

“A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth” – Joseph Goebbels, German Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. This is the exact words of Nazis most famous propagandist in using media as a mass weapon of propaganda and mind control. Could you imagine Germany in 1930s, without Television channel, without the Internet, without every mobile device in your palm, what channel of information will you get? Of course, newspapers, flies, images, celebrities

‘propaganda model’ or the ‘political economy model’ for the study of media power. The Chomsky-Herman propaganda model, at its core, asserts that “elite media determine what topics, issues and events are to be considered ‘newsworthy’ by lower-tier media… in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups [in society]” (Klaehn 2005, p. 2). Most assertions of this theory are relevant for today’s mediascape, though by and large the propaganda model holds a prejudiced view of media ownership and conglomerates

Political economy media theory identifies a socially critical approach that focuses primarily on the relationship between the economic structure and political force in media industries and the ideological content of the media outputs. China has a very special situation of the political interference which are much serious than other kinds of countries. In western capitalist countries, the media is defined as a separate news outlet with legally press freedom approval by the government and formal institution

In the propaganda model media’s function is to inform the public with values and beliefs that will integrate them but if the power is in the hands of state, which means if the state controls the media. It is clear that the media serves the state and their dominant elite. The propaganda and Duncan’s analysis both agree that the journalists that covered the Marikana massacre had critiques and inequality in their reporting. Both Chomsky and Duncan focused on this

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Media Fragmentation’s Effect on Democracy The emergence of new media and the rise of different forms of media outlets have greatly changed global media, providing audiences with multiple novel options for news consumption. This extremely high choice environment undoubtedly has some major implications with respect to politically charged news. Before the advent of radio, cable news channels, and most recently, the Internet, local newspapers and evening news broadcasts served as the primary outlets