Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, in which the authors propose that the mass communication media of the U.S. “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions, and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”, by means of the propaganda model of communication.
Thepropaganda model for the manufacture of public consent describes five editorially distorting filters, which are applied to the reporting of news in mass communications media.
Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation.
The Advertising License to Do Business.
The Advertising License to Do Business.
Flak and the Enforcers.
Anti-Communism.
Four years after publication, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media was adapted as Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992), a documentary film that discusses the propaganda model of communication and the politics of the mass-communications business, as well as a biography of Chomsky.
