• 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.

• The propaganda model for the manufacture of public consent describes five editorially distorting filters, which are applied to the reporting of news in mass communications media.

1. Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation.
2. The Advertising License to Do Business.
3. The Advertising License to Do Business.
4. Flak and the Enforcers.
5. 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.

• Gatekeepers – A person who controls access to something.
• Regulation / Deregulation – The removal of management / management of complex systems according to a set of rules and trends.
• Free market – A system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by the open market and by consumers.
• Monopolies – When a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity. 
• Mergers – The merging of one estate or title in another.
• Media concentration – A process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organisations control increasing shares of the mass media.
• Conglomerates – A combination of multiple business entities operating in entirely different industries under one corporate group.
• Globalisation (in terms of media ownership) – the worldwide integration of media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas.
• Vertical Integration – The combination in one firm of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate firms.
• Horizontal Integration – The process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain.
• Surveillance / Privacy / Security – Freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm caused by others.

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