“Manufacturing consent” is a concept that was first established in “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” written by the world-renowned linguistics professor and leftist ...

That troll farms existed was fairly well-known but even WH Auden would be surprised to learn that many prominent Twitter accounts are run by farms. And we saw that when Elon Musk’s X (the hellhole ...

The theory of “Manufacturing Consent”, developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, is one of the most prominent intellectual frameworks explaining how major media outlets shape public opinion—not as ...

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky gained much notoriety from their seminal book, Manufacturing Consent, more than two decades ago. The central thesis of that book – that political and media elites ...

In his 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media, co-author Noam Chomsky decried how newspaper, radio, and television peddles "system-supportive propaganda" in the service ...

One of my TIME overlords called me this afternoon to say that he had read James Surowiecki’s thoughtful defense of the Geithner plan in the latest New Yorker and Joe Stiglitz’s thoughtful attack on it ...

And when we wrote the Manufacturing Consent, which was—the first edition came out in 1988—we had both had—were studying the media, and we both had deadlines that we couldn’t meet, so we decided ...