Rebooting the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century

Brian Michael Goss

ISBN 10: 1433116200 / ISBN 13: 9781433116209

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mai 2013, 2013

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Neuware -Using the Herman & Chomsky «Propaganda Model» that was introduced in 1988, Goss offers a rigorous and accessible portrait of contemporary news media. Following a current survey of media ownership and news worker routines, in a series of case studies, he shows how recent news discourse has developed an Us/Them narrative. Cases include The New York Times¿ accounts of the Bush administration and United Nations in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and analysis of the 2011 riots in the United Kingdom in a comparison between two British broadsheets (The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph). Further case studies demonstrate important, if partial, new media discontinuities with respect to «old» news media. The book¿s international reach and sustained attention to new media indicate that it is not simply high-fidelity repetition of Herman & Chomsky, but re-engineers the model¿s architecture for the twenty-first century.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 242 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rebooting the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mai 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433116200
• ISBN 13: 9781433116209
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 14D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 346 grams

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Synopsis

Using the Herman & Chomsky «Propaganda Model» that was introduced in 1988, Goss offers a rigorous and accessible portrait of contemporary news media. Following a current survey of media ownership and news worker routines, in a series of case studies, he shows how recent news discourse has developed an Us/Them narrative. Cases include The New York Times’ accounts of the Bush administration and United Nations in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq; and analysis of the 2011 riots in the United Kingdom in a comparison between two British broadsheets (The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph). Further case studies demonstrate important, if partial, new media discontinuities with respect to «old» news media. The book’s international reach and sustained attention to new media indicate that it is not simply high-fidelity repetition of Herman & Chomsky, but re-engineers the model’s architecture for the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Brian Michael Goss (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana) is a professor in the communication faculty at Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain. His principal research interests revolve around mass media in its many manifestations. Dr. Goss is the author of Global Auteurs: Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, von Trier, and Winterbottom (Peter Lang, 2009) and co-editor (with Christopher Chávez) of Identity: Beyond Tradition and McWorld Neo-Liberalism (2013).