Podcast appearances and mentions of Edward Herman

In this episode, I cover the chapter 5 to the end of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's "Manufacturing Consent." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.everyaction.com/1_w5egiGB0u0BAfbJMsEfw2 Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I explain Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's notion of the Propaganda Model from Manufacturing Consent. Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.everyaction.com/1_w5egiGB0u0BAfbJMsEfw2 Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I cover chapters 2-4 of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's "Manufacturing Consent." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.everyaction.com/1_w5egiGB0u0BAfbJMsEfw2 Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this episode, I cover the preface and chapter one of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's "Manufacturing Consent." Please consider donating to one of the following organizations: Palestinian Children's Relief Fund: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/forms/general United Nations Relief and Works Agency: https://donate.unrwa.org/gaza/~my-donation Middle East Children's Alliance: https://secure.everyaction.com/1_w5egiGB0u0BAfbJMsEfw2 Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy

In this podcast, Alan MacLeod discusses his recent books and journalism. Dr. Macleod completed his PhD in Sociology at Glasgow University  focusing on research interests of social media, Internet subcultures, propaganda, fake news, and Latin American politics. He is a prolific journalist and has contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and MintPress News. His most recent books include: “Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting,” which examines how Western media has reported on Venezuela since the election of President Hugo Chavez in 1998 including coverage that is often distorted and contributes to the spread of misinformation and "fake news" in support or the US imperialism and hegemony.   "Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent"  is a collaborative volume that updates Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's propaganda model for the modern media landscape. The book explores how the original ideas from their 1988 book, "Manufacturing Consent," remain relevant today.   Order the books: Bad News from Venezuela https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9781032178752 Propaganda in the Information Age https://www.kingsbookstore.com/book/9781138366404 Alan MacLeods Social Media: Instagram: @alan.r.macleod X: @AlanRMacLeod MintPress News: https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/alan-macleod/   Greg's Blog: http://zzs-blg.blogspot.com/ Pat's Substack: https://patcummings.substack.com/about   AlanMacLeod#MintPressNews#BadNewsfromVenezuela#PropagandaInformationAge#Venezuela#FakeNews#Misreporting#MediaBias#HugoChavez#Neoliberalism#WesternMedia#Journalism#PropagandaModel#Chavismo#MediaStudies#LatinAmerican#NoamChomsky#EdwardHerman#Disinformation#Cambridge#Analytica#SyrianCivilWar#Russiagate#MediaFilters#egirls#LunchBagLujan#Jolani#PhillipCross#8200#PatCummings#PatrickCummings#GregGodels#ZZBlog#ComingFromLeftField#ComingFromLeftFieldPodcast#zzblog#mltoday

Ad Verbrugge in gesprek met Jeroen Pols, jurist en mede-oprichter van Viruswaarheid, over een wankelend systeem, grondrechten, vrijheden en verzet. Bronnen en links bij deze uitzending: - Richard Thalor en Cass Sunstein, 'Nudge': https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690485/nudge-by-richard-h-thaler-and-cass-r-sunstein/ (27:24) - 'Met kennis van gedrag beleid maken', WRR: https://www.wrr.nl/publicaties/rapporten/2014/09/10/met-kennis-van-gedrag-beleid-maken - 'Manufacturing Consent. The Political Economy of the Mass Media', Edward Herman en Noam Chomsky: https://libris.nl/a/edward-s-herman--noam-chomsky/manufacturing-consent/9780099533115 (29:49) - https://videowaarheid.nl/project_category/10-delige-reeks/ (38:11) - Meer informatie over de 'Summit of the Future': https://www.un.org/en/summit-of-the-future (45:27) -- Steun De Nieuwe Wereld. Word patroon op https://petjeaf.com/denieuwewereld of doneer op NL61 RABO 0357 5828 61 t.n.v. Stichting De Nieuwe Wereld. Alvast bedankt. -- 0:00 Introductie 0:20 Een gedwongen carrièreswitch 4:15 De start van Viruswaarheid 9:39 De zaak tegen de avondklok 12:38 Lawfare, smeercampagnes en systeemdruk 18:59 Een aanval op de gevestigde orde 22:50 Over het weren van dissidente geluiden 25:00 Totalitarisme 30:16 Kritisch nadenken 39:02 Een begin van verandering? 40:53 Briljante bubbels en shadowbanning 45:13 Is de samenleving nog te redden? 45:56 Over grondrechten en vrijheden -- De Nieuwe Wereld TV is een platform dat mensen uit verschillende disciplines bij elkaar brengt om na te denken over grote veranderingen die op komst zijn door een combinatie van snelle technologische ontwikkelingen en globalisering. Het is een initiatief van filosoof Ad Verbrugge in samenwerking met anchors Jelle van Baardewijk en Marlies Dekkers. De Nieuwe Wereld TV wordt gemaakt in samenwerking met de Filosofische School Nederland. Onze website: https://denieuwewereld.tv/ DNW heeft ook een Substack. Meld je hier aan: https://denieuwewereld.substack.com/

Send us a textIn today's episode, I interview Julia Grupińska, Tian Westraad, and Ezequiel Garibay, three of the five directors of the short film "El Ombligo de la Luna." The short animated film is a heartwarming story of a boy reconnecting with his long lost father and was selected as a finalist for the 2024 Student Academy Awards.Listen to hear about how the team found the perfect voice for one of their main characters, the meaning of the title of the film, and what movies the directors all agree on as some of their favorites.Books mentioned in this episode include:The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno BettelheimManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and Noam ChomskyOutliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm GladwellThe Ambassadors by Henry JamesFilms mentioned in this episode include:"El Ombligo de la Luna” directed by Sara António, Julia Grupińska, Bokang Koatja, Tian Westraad, and Ezequiel GaribayThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring directed by Peter JacksonThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers directed by Peter JacksonThe Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter JacksonWhiplash directed by Damien ChazelleThe King's Speech directed by Tom HooperThe Matrix directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly WachowskiYou can check out the film on YouTube and find the work of Aldo Martínez who composed the music for the film on SoundCloud and Instagram.Follow the film on Instagram @luna.gobelins, Julia @juliagrupinska, Tian @tian.ouest, and Ezequiel @ezequiel_garibay.

"The Kingery" returns this September, we've got news on the back half of season two of "Genesis Avalon: Patriot," and Jordan and Edward Herman discuss growing with characters, body swap sex, and second grade Shakespeare! Let it marinate. --Please leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions

durée : 00:58:48 - "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green / Edward Herman) (1930) / Démarquage : 6e Live du Tetracordo Ensemble - par : Laurent Valero - "Le démarquage, une manière particulièrement vivante et tout spécialement imaginée pour l'émission, un pont entre le patrimoine du Jazz et une création d'aujourd'hui. Le 6e démarquage autour d'Out of Nowhere, standard de cette émission est signé du trompettiste Fabien Mary !" Laurent Valero

durée : 00:58:48 - "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green / Edward Herman) (1930) / Démarquage : 6e Live du Tetracordo Ensemble - par : Laurent Valero - "Le démarquage, une manière particulièrement vivante et tout spécialement imaginée pour l'émission, un pont entre le patrimoine du Jazz et une création d'aujourd'hui. Le 6e démarquage autour d'Out of Nowhere, standard de cette émission est signé du trompettiste Fabien Mary !" Laurent Valero

WE ARE BACK FROM HIATUS!!! And we sure did miss you, queerfam. This episode is very close to both our hearts, and we hope you will receive it with love, even if it challenges you in some ways. Instead of our usual post-season race roundtable, today we are discussing Israel & Palestine, & our relationship to the current war on Gaza as Antizionist Jews. With us is special guest Kaia from the Western MA chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. We'll discuss our personal histories & how we came to consciousness on this topic, as well as some pretty clear parallels between SPOP & our lived experiences of Israel/Palestine. There are a LOT of links in today's show notes, so please use them! They're WICKED EDUCATIONAL.    We will return with regular S5 coverage in late June 2024.   Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/heyadoracast   Meff's Audio Engineering Class GoFundMe: https://bit.ly/audiomeff   Find more info at HeyAdora.gay or on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok @heyadoracast. Send us your thoughts and feelings at heyadoracast@gmail.com. LINKS TO LEARN MORE! Take action:  https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org  https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org   Resources for Education, & Citations: Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman): https://tinyurl.com/7e7eb75a Covering Islam (Edward Said): https://tinyurl.com/nyeu7he2 The Question of Palestine (Edward Said): https://tinyurl.com/2wcn2zrd Albert Einstein et al letter to the New York Times (Dec 4 1948): https://tinyurl.com/4em3kdjy Arthur Balfour was a white supremacist & an antisemite (Jewish Daily Forward, Nov 1 2017): https://tinyurl.com/34bb4d37 Lessons from the Bund: A Socialist, Anti-Zionist, Jewish Movement (Left Voice, Aug 27 2021): https://tinyurl.com/3ptx6vhh The Red Menace is Gone, but Here's Islam ( New York Times, Jan 21 1996): https://tinyurl.com/4f8km72w Israelism documentary (available to stream on AppleTV, Google Play, Amazon Prime & more, starting June 2024): https://www.israelismfilm.com On the Media from WNYC: Israeli TV News Sanitizes the Bombing of Gaza (Jan 12 2024): https://tinyurl.com/67syjwmv I Drafted the Definition of Antisemitism. Right Wing Jews are Weaponizing it. (The Guardian, Dec 13 2019): https://tinyurl.com/3hk9buve Unpacking the Campus Antisemitism Narrative (Jewish Currents Podcast, April 11 2024): https://tinyurl.com/59dd65zb Jewish Organizing at Columbia's Encampment (Jewish Currents Podcast, April 25 2024): https://tinyurl.com/yc59uczk

Rogier, Jelle en Ad bespreken het nieuws van de week. Kom op 28 juni naar De Nacht van De Nieuwe Wereld. Bestel je kaarten hier: https://dnw.eventgoose.com/ Bronnen en links bij deze uitzending: - Meer over de tentoonstelling over Frans Hals in het Rijksmuseum: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/zien-en-doen/tentoonstellingen/frans-hals - Een trailer van 'Civil war': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2G18nIVpNE - Meer over Maurice' film 'Dood door schuld?': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBFgx6QFVqk en een trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqwXATgEyRA - 'Inside the 'disinformation' industry' bij Unherd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILEMV0xKGh4 - 'Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media' van Noam Chomsky en Edward Herman: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12617.Manufacturing_Consent - Het gesprek van Rogier met Thijs Poelhekke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKL3FtXTp64 - Het gesprek van Jelle met Mark Koster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCJoSX_l2jA - Kamerbrief bij 11de voortgangsrapportage Binnenhof renovatie: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/kamerstukken/2024/04/16/kamerbrief-tk-inzake-aanbieding-11de-voortgangsrapportage-binnenhof-renovatie

Michelle and David continue the conversation on how the Military's actions and inaction further cement its place in the complex of industry. This final episode brings things together and adds some last thoughts. Stay tuned for next season and special bonus episodes in the works.    Episode Sources:    https://theintercept.com/2021/08/26/afghanistan-america-failures/   https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/   https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/   https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/0213/p05s01-woeu.html   https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/unexploded-american-bombs-killing-children-laos   https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/   https://thewashingtonstandard.com/as-ukranians-get-killed-displaced-weapons-companies-reaping-record-profits-off-their-suffering/   How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Family of Secrets by Russ Baker The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins  Killing Hope by William Blum

How does the media really work? They want us to think they are fearlessly challenging power. In reality, they are subservient to power. They want us to think that the media is a "self-correcting" system. In reality, they perpetuate whatever errors are useful to their masters. In this episode, I look at the "Propaganda Model" as set forth by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their classic media analysis, "Manufacturing Consent". In that model, five filters govern the quality, quantity, extent and frequency of coverage given to any particular issue. Those filters are: 1) the ownership of the media 2) the sponsors of the media 3) allegiance to powerful sources 4) something called "flack" and 5) the religion of anti-communism, and other powerful ideologies that control the public discourse. If we are to solve the problem of climate change and other important environmental problems, we must understand who shapes news coverage and how it all works.

THE THESIS: The open corruption of The Party and the waves amusement device has America in the Era of “Whetevs.”: Forced abortion in America? Whatevs. Unhealthy, overweight Army recruits? Whatevs. The CCP has backdoor access to our nukes? Yeah . . . whatevs.  THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:  Revelations 3: 15-20 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. THE NEWS, COMMENT & RESOURCES: [AUDIO] - Reporter: “Do you want to see Joe Biden run for a second term?”  Staff: “She's gotta go.”  Democrat Cori Bush: “I don't want to answer that question” A Propaganda Model by Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky, Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent, 1988 Legal Insurrection: “Report: China-Made Huawei Equipment Can Disrupt U.S. Military and Nuclear Communications Chinese-made Huawei ‘equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country's nuclear weapons.'” The Army is on pace to miss recruiting goals by tens of thousands in 2022. Their plan to fix this: Continue to turn away healthy recruits who aren't Covid vaccinated and create an entire task force to bring in overweight and unhealthy recruits.  Thomas Massie: When the vaccines failed to prevent infection, they redefined vaccination. When the economy fails to grow, they redefine recession. Allie Beth Stuckley : People don't realize how common this is in surrogacy. Many surrogacy contracts include a clause that requires the surrogate to abort at any point if the parents decide they no longer want the baby. The buying of eggs & renting of wombs is a nasty, unethical, unnatural business. [AUDIO] - KAMALA HARRIS: "Listen, women are getting pregnant every day in America, and this is a real issue." Erick Erickson: Seme-sex sex film actors are bragging about having orgies in the midst of Mokey Pox spraeding through the gay community and a same-sex attracted Soros employee is upset he couldn't get a vaccine for Monkey Pox, buyt not upset at himself that he kept having six with strangers (and, he barely even mentions that he contracted ghonoera at the same time).  Public School Employee ARRESTED In Child Sex Sting Called For LGBT Teaching And Mocked - Parents - This is from the Clash Daily, it substantiate this with a link to a local news article behind subscription wall . . . and, as Clash Daily points out, the local media fails to mention this man's teaching career.  [AUDIO] - The “teacher's” speech BLOCK 2 [AUDIO] - Andy Ngo: "I'm living in a nightmare neighborhood" Portlanders break down in tears over how @PortlandGov has allowed their neighborhoods to be run down by encampments. Efforts at any clean-up is strongly resisted & sabotaged by far-left activists allied w/Antifa [AUDIO] - NYC Mayor Eric Adams on migrants being sent to NYC: "Our schools are going to be impacted. Our healthcare system is going to be impacted. Our infrastructure is going to be impacted." BLOCK 3 [AUDIO] - 'I do want a 100% Korean baby!' Pop star Oli London, who transitioned from a white boy to a Korean girl, tells Mark Dolan they want their child to be Korean too.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michelle and David are back for Season Two of Expiration Date. There is an updated logo but the same great reporting. This season is all about the Military Industrial Complex.  In this first episode they provide an overview of the season as based on three specific wars. References are below. Feel Free to follow them on Twitter and Email them with any comments/feedback. Enjoy.   References: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/26/afghanistan-america-failures/   https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/   https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/   https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2009/0213/p05s01-woeu.html   https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/unexploded-american-bombs-killing-children-laos   https://earth.org/us-military-pollution/   https://www.palestinechronicle.com/ghassan-kanafani-voice-of-palestine-1936-1972/   https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdDjHFr7/   https://thewashingtonstandard.com/as-ukranians-get-killed-displaced-weapons-companies-reaping-record-profits-off-their-suffering/     Season Source Books    How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin Washington Bullets by Vijay Prashad A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Family of Secrets by Russ Baker The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins  Killing Hope by William Blum

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is the name of an influential book co-authored by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman.  In this podcast, I talk about Chomsky and Herman's propaganda model in relation to news media and its role in the mechanics of power. SourcesManufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman. 1988. Pantheon Books. Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky. Rızanın İmalatı: Kitle Medyasının Ekonomi Politiği. BGT Yayınları. 3. Baskı, 2021. Al Jazeera TV's Interview with Noam Chomsky . The Listening Post, 2019

37. Bölüm:  Bu defa biraz medya okuryazarlığı çalışması. Noam Chomsky ve Edward Herman tarafından yazılan  “Rızanın İmalatı: Kitle Medyasının Ekonomi Politiği” isimli kitaptan bahsediyorum: 1988 yılında basılan kitabın İngilizce adı: “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Econonomy of the Mass Media”.  Kitle medyası,  propaganda, manipülasyon... bazı anahtar kelimeler. Kullandığım kaynaklarEdward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky. Rızanın İmalatı: Kitle Medyasının Ekonomi Politiği. BGT Yayınları. 3. Baskı, 2021. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Pantheon Books, 1988. Al Jazeera TV Noam Chomsky Röportajı : The Listening Post, 2019

In Episode 79 of the CounterVortex podcast, Bill Weinberg marks the 26th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia, and reads selections from Surviving the Peace: The Struggle for Postwar Recovery in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Peter Lippman. In his final chapter, "Atrocity Revisionism," Lippman deftly deconstructs the rank genocide denial we have seen from paradoxical icons of the "left" such as Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. Presaging the similar denialism now seen concerning Syria, these "left" pundits created an impression among their gullible admirers that there was no genocide at Srebrenica—despite the fact that the remains of over 7,000 of the presumed 8,000 victims of the massacre have now been exhumed from mass graves and identified by the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP). Listen on SoundCloud or via Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/countervortex Production by Chris Rywalt We ask listeners to donate just $1 per weekly episode via Patreon. We now have 24 subscribers. If you appreciate our work, please become Number 25!

In their book Manufacturing Consent, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. What emerges from this groundbreaking work is an account of just how propagandistic our mass media are, and how we can learn to read them and see their function in a radically new way. I discuss some of these ideas in this podcast.

While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration on all podcasting platforms courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.📣📣📣 Announcement: Admissions are now open for the summer cohort of Takshashila Institution’s 12-week Graduate Certificate Programme in Public Policy. Visit takshashila.org.in/courses to find out more.  Global Policy Watch: A Short History Of The Breitbart DoctrineBringing an Indian perspective to burning global issues- RSJIn edition #117 where we covered the resignation of Pratap Bhanu Mehta, we had a polemic by Edward Skidelsky as suggested reading in our homework section. We specifically quoted this line:“The ‘woke’ left is currently pursuing this goal by way of a Gramscian “long march through the institutions” — a progressive co-option of the schools, universities, state bureaucracies and big corporations.”  What’s this ‘Gramscian long march’ that’s mentioned here? That’s the first question for this post.Separately, I was drawn to a U.S. national survey done by Cato Institute last year on freedom of expression. The results weren’t surprising to me (including the stupid graph that I have copied below from their site):“Strong liberals stand out, however, as the only political group who feel they can express themselves. Nearly 6 in 10 (58%) of staunch liberals feel they can say what they believe. However, centrist liberals feel differently. A slim majority (52%) of liberals feel they have to self‐​censor, as do 64% of moderates, and 77% of conservatives. This demonstrates that political expression is an issue that divides the Democratic coalition between centrist Democrats and their left flank.”I take the ‘strong liberal’ in the US to be the progressive wing of the Democratic party. They are the ‘woke’ Skidelsky was referring to in his article. There’s no equivalent survey of this kind in India. But I would venture to suggest the “strong liberals” in India might not poll as well on speaking their minds nor would the Indian conservatives be as reticent as their American counterparts in today’s times. Based on incidents like P.B. Mehta’s resignation that seem to have become more frequent in recent years and the ‘chilling effect’ that follows, I would guess these percentages might just flip in India. Anyway, the percentages aren’t of interest to me. My interest is in the phenomenon. This dominance of one side that makes the other side self-censor themselves. What explains this? That’s the second question for this post.That Old Chestnut: The Breitbart DoctrineBoth these questions - on Gramscian long march and on self-censorship - bring me to the oft-repeated Breitbart doctrine:“Politics is downstream of culture.”That is, change the culture and sooner, politics will change. Now you’d think this was an insight that galvanised the American conservative right following the Obama takeover of the establishment. It was what got Trump into the White House with Steve Bannon in tow. That this was part of the right-wing toolkit. Nothing could be further from the truth. The left was likely the originator of the idea that culture influences politics. To understand this better, we will go through a short history of ‘manufacture of consent’ and ‘cultural hegemony’. Knowing it will help address the two questions raised at the start of this post as well. Manufacture Of ConsentThe term ‘manufacture of consent’ first appeared in Walter Lippman’s book ‘Public Opinion’ (1922). For Lippman, the world was too complex for an ordinary individual to comprehend. In order to make sense of it, people carried a mental image of the world inside their heads. These pictures were what drove groups or individuals to act in society in the name of Public Opinion. A strong democracy, therefore, needs institutions and media that help in creating the most accurate interpretations of the world in the minds of the people. But this isn’t easy. Lippman was worried democracy relied on something so irrational as a public opinion that takes shape in the minds of poorly informed and easily manipulated people. For Lippman, policymakers and experts should use narratives for ‘manufacture of consent’ among people which enables public opinion to be channelled in a manner that’s consistent with what’s good for society. Lippman believed persuasion and the knowledge of how to create consent through ‘propaganda’ will change politics in the age of mass media. As he wrote:“A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. Within the life of the generation now in control of affairs, persuasion has become a self-conscious art and a regular organ of popular government. None of us begins to understand the consequences, but it is no daring prophecy to say that the knowledge of how to create consent will alter every political calculation and modify every political premise. Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables.” Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book ‘Manufacturing Consent’ (1988) picked up this idea to argue media outlets are “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function.” Market forces and an entrenched establishment control the mass media which manipulates public opinion by revealing only half-truths and distorted facts that serve their interests. It manufactures consent through propaganda while keeping the ill-informed public in thrall with distractions and entertainment. Chomsky has since argued this control of mass culture through media and institutions and the ‘manufacture of consent’ is essential to the survival of capitalism.Gramsci And Cultural HegemonyWhile Lippman was writing about the need for the ‘manufacture of consent’ using culture in a capitalist democracy like America, Antonio Gramsci, an Italian neo-Marxist was thinking on similar lines in a prison in Mussolini’s Italy. Gramsci started with a simple question. Why didn’t the working class living in an oppressive regime (anything that’s non-Marxist was oppressive in his view) revolt more often when they could see clearly how badly the economic balance was tilted against them? Why didn’t the exploited rise in revolt more often?Gramsci argued a capitalist state had two overlapping spheres that helped it to thrive. There was the ‘political society’ that ruled through coercion and control of means of production which was visible to all. But there was also the ‘civil society’ that ruled through consent and control of minds. The civil society was the public sphere of ideas and beliefs that were shaped through the church, media or universities. To him, the capitalist state was successful in ‘manufacturing consent’ among people through the ‘cultural hegemony’ it set up through its control of the public sphere. People living in such societies didn’t question their position or their exploitation because they thought this was the ‘natural state’ of existence. The cultural hegemony was so complete and overpowering that there could hardly be any mobilisation of people against the ‘political society’ which ruled through coercion. The minds of the people were brainwashed through propaganda. Gramsci, therefore, concluded that for the struggle (or revolution) to take over means of production to even begin, the people will have to win the war over cultural hegemony. He used the WW1 terms that were in vogue then. For the war of manoeuvre (that is a direct attack over the enemy) to be successful, it has to be preceded by the war of position (digging trenches and cutting off enemy lines etc). The people will have to win the war of ideas and beliefs by creating their own cultural hegemony and taking over the public sphere through control of religious institutions, media and universities. This is the ‘Gramscian march’ that Skidelsky referred to in his article.This was a far-reaching idea about how the nature of power had changed in a world where universities and mass media shaped people’s thinking. The power of engineering consent using culture is the first step to launch a successful attack over an existing power structure. While Garmsci used neo-Marxian terms to expound his ideas, the broader implications of his argument were clear. In short: establishing cultural hegemony is the first step to winning the minds and eventually, the votes of people (we are talking of democracy here). Over time, this hegemony in the public sphere will earn you the long-term consent of the people who will consider it their ‘natural state’. Self-censorship will follow as an outcome of this hegemony. That addresses the second question on why people self-censor themselves.Over a hundred years since Lippman first wrote about ‘manufacture of consent’, the idea that politics is downstream of culture has only acquired greater currency in a saturated media space that all of us inhabit now. The left and the right have both acquired the toolkits to fight this ‘war of position’ in various democracies around the world. In the US, it is ‘woke left’ on a supposed Gramscian march today. In India, I suspect, the shoe is on the other foot. But the march is definitely on.India Policy Watch: Mandal AgainInsights on burning policy issues in India- Pranay KotasthaneA Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court is set to announce its judgment on the Maratha quota case. Amongst other issues, the court will decide on the question if state governments can breach the 50 per cent reservation ceiling. This 50 per cent limit comes from the Indra Sawhney judgment of 1993, which legally upheld the recommendations of the Mandal Committee Report. Legal issues aside, today’s political reality makes this judgment even more riveting. Perhaps all political parties appear to be in favour of going beyond this 50 per cent limit, although in different ways. The NDA government has already increased reservations to ~60 per cent in central-government jobs, central-government educational institutions, and private educational institutions through the 103rd constitutional amendment in 2019. The additional 10 per cent seats are now meant to be reserved for economically weaker sections (EWS) of citizens not already benefiting from reservation. In other words, this quota is for persons from non-SC, non-ST, non-OBC classes, as long as their earning is below a defined income threshold. On the other hand, many caste-based and one-caste-dominated political parties are in favour of breaching the 50 per cent ceiling in order to extend or increase quotas for their caste base. The gap between the court-prescribed ceiling and the political reality has become unsustainable. To use a Ravi Shastri phrase, “something’s gotta give”. Not to forget, that 50 per cent ceiling number itself is quite contrived. Read what the Indra Sawhney case judgment says:Just as every power must be exercised reasonably and fairly, the power conferred by Clause (4) of Article 16 should also be exercised in a fair manner and within reasonably limits - and what is more reasonable than to say that reservation under Clause (4) shall not exceed 50% of the appointments or posts, barring certain extra-ordinary situations as explained hereinafter. From this point of view, the 27% reservation provided by the impugned Memorandums in favour of backward classes is well within the reasonable limits. Together with reservation in favour of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, it comes to a total of 49.5%. Beneath the legalese, observe the narrative power of numbers at play. Any measured phenomenon creates implicit norms of what is “too high” or “too low”. The 50 per cent limit seems intuitively “just right” or “balanced” — half of the seats have quotas while the other half doesn’t. This powerful narrative largely survived for over 25 years but seems to be falling apart now. And so it appears that reservations have ceased to be a means to correct for inadequate representation of certain disadvantaged sections. Instead, reservations have become springboards for all groups to demand proportional representation. The implicit norm now is that the State needs to enable representation of groups in educational institutions and government jobs according to their proportion in the population; the question of historical disadvantage has been relegated to an incidental criterion. Moreover, the general equilibrium effect of quotas is that group identities have become sharper and more powerful. Is there another way out?There is no doubt that a republic founded in a society with a long history of systematic discrimination will inevitably resort to some affirmative action. But is there a way out beyond caste-based reservations? Nitin Pai and I had proposed one such alternative a couple of years ago in FirstPost:Consider this thought experiment. There are no predetermined quotas for any posts. Positions are filled only based on a composite score of all applicants. The composite score is a combination of two measures. The first is an inequityscore — calculated to compensate for the relative disadvantage faced by an applicant.The second measure strictly represents an applicant’s ability to be effective for the position they are applying for. Selection is on the basis of the composite score. No seats are reserved and yet the score allows for addressing multidimensional inequity much better than current methods.The inequity score can be used to indicate relative disadvantage along several dimensions: individual, social and geographic. Different factors can be assigned different weightages. For instance, given the salience of caste in the Indian social context, the greater the disadvantage a community faces, the higher the weightage.In addition, we can incorporate other parameters into the inequity score — parents’ level of education, income levels, rural upbringing, or even childhood nutritional deficiencies. Currently, our system of quota-based allocations does not account for non-caste disadvantages that have a disproportionate impact on life outcomes.A national commission for equity can be formed to propose and review parameters and their weightages within a cooperative federal framework. It doesn’t have to be one-size-fits-all solution. States can assign their own factors and weightages according to the local conditions.The second measure — an effectiveness score — can then be kept completely independent of equity considerations. It can take the form of a test, an interview or any other indicator to assess candidates’ ability to perform the job they have applied for. Information about the inequity scores can be masked from evaluators of the effectiveness score.By filling positions based on a sum of the two scores, it becomes possible to be more comprehensive in addressing social inequities while also creating stronger incentives for an individual pursuit of excellence.Satish Deshpande and Yogendra Yadav had proposed a similar model for higher education way back in 2006:An evidenced-based model addressing multiple sources of group and individual disadvantages helps to de-essentialise identity markers such as caste or religion; that is, it provides a rational explanation why specific castes or communities are entitled to compensatory discrimination and undermines attitudes that treat such entitlements as a “birth right”.In essence, this solution tries to solve for both “merit” and “disadvantage”. The opponents of reservation claim that quotas directly undermine efficiency and merit. The proponents of quotas on the other hand find the notion of merit completely odious. They argue on these lines: Efficiency of administration in the affairs of the Union or of a State must be defined in an inclusive sense, where diverse segments of society find representation as a true aspiration of governance by and for the people. In contrast to quotas, the composite score solution acknowledges that some assessment of “merit” is inescapable, even desirable. But it also doesn't ignore the problem that disadvantaged individuals face. Hence, we believe it is a better solution than quotas.In edition#72, we discussed a framework on “nine competing visions of equality” only to reiterate Deborah Stone’s insightful conclusion:“equality often means inequality, and equal treatment often means unequal treatment. The same distribution may look equal or unequal, depending on where you focus.”Essentially, any distribution, however equalising it is in one respect, can be charged as being unequal on another parameter. What matters far more is whether a distribution is perceived as being fair or not. As Starmans et al write:… humans naturally favour fair distributions, not equal ones, and that when fairness and equality clash, people prefer fair inequality over unfair equality In the Indian context, quotas come with charges of unfairness. It is time to look beyond them. PS: A commonplace assertion that “the constitution imagined reservations to last only for ten years at the outset” is a myth. This 10-year clause was meant to apply to reservations of seats for SC/ST groups in the Lok Sabha and Legislative Assemblies. There was no such 10-year limit on reservations in jobs and educational institutions under articles 15(4) and 16(4). I too believed in this urban myth having read it being regurgitated in countless opinion pieces. Hat-tip to an alert Puliyabaazi listener for updating my priors. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Video] "The Big Idea" - a half-hour interview between Noam Chomsky and British journalist Andrew Marr, first aired by the BBC in February 1996. A great interview where Andrew Marr is completely convinced he’s not taken in by the propaganda while Chomsky is sure he is! [Podcast] A Puliyabaazi episode discussing the nine competing visions of equality[Article] Alexander Lee on redesigning India’s reservation system[Article] Satish Deshpande traces the history of reservation policies[Article] Pratap Bhanu Mehta on how the open category is slowly becoming a reserved category through other means Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

Dans son ouvrage, Le travail, histoire d'une idéologie, publié aux Editions Utopia (2015), Guillaume Borel dresse un panorama des liens que nous avons, des chasseurs cueilleurs à aujourd'hui, avec le travail. Nous revenons donc avec lui sur la construction de ce qu'il nomme idéologie du travail. Les références citées dans cette épisode : Marshall Sahlins, Âge de pierre, âge d'abondance : L'économie des sociétés primitives, Gallimard, 1976 Guillaume Borel, Le travail, histoire d'une idéologie, Utopia, 2016 Maw Weber, L'Éthique protestante et l'Esprit du capitalisme, 1904 Guillaume Borel dans l'Encyclopédie du Changement de cap https://eccap.fr/article/le-travail-instrument-de-domination/5b9bcb157848d100137a4ce4 Jacques Ellul, Pour qui, pour quoi travaillons-nous ? Textes choisis, présentés et annotés par Michel Hourcade, Jean-PierreJézéquel et Gérard Paul, (La Petite vermillon, 379), Paris, LaTable Ronde, 2013 Noam Chomsky et Edward Herman, La fabrication du consentement Edward P. Thompson, Temps, discipline du travail et capitalisme industriel, La Fabrique, 2004 Cette série BOSSER BOSSER propose une exploration dans les profondeurs du Travail. Et quel meilleur moment que cette crise que nous traversons, qui a vu entre autres se généraliser le télétravail, pour questionner ce mot d'un usage si courant qu'on finit par oublier d'en interroger le sens. Depuis la nuit des temps l'homme travaille…mais le travail a-t-il toujours eu la même signification pour lui ? Crédits : Musique : DreamWork by Anitek (licence Creative Common) Visuel : Chooette Design Interview par Florine Garlot

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How does the mass media function in American society? Is the media landscape really an egalitarian one, wherein news outlets aim to attract audiences by presenting information in a value-neutral way? According to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, nah: they say the mass media is a system of propaganda that functions, ultimately, to preserve and protect the interests of media company shareholders, their advertisers, and governmental and corporate sources. But are they right? How has their model, originally published in 1988, stood up to the test of time? Are there distinctions to be made between organizations like The New York Times and Fox News? We're dissecting the mass media not as a cabal of nefarious execs scheming to deceive the public, but rather as a set of bureaucracies and incentives oriented, fundamentally, around the bottom line and maintaining the status quo. Before that: when to shower during quarantine, cologne is superfluous trash, and the myth of Elon Musk as a self-made innovator who's invested in the welfare of humanity (he's not). Intro and break music courtesy of Chris Giuliano (https://www.instagram.com/chris_giuliano_gs/). Works Cited Alex Graham: A Deep Dive Into Elon Musk's Investments (https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/elon-musks-investments) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/78912/manufacturing-consent-by-edward-s-herman-and-noam-chomsky/) Jerry Hirsch: Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies (https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html) Julia Carrie Wong: Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-workers-pay-price-elon-musk-failed-promises) Matt Robinson and Zeke Faux: When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp) Noel Randewich: Musk's Tesla stake worth $30 billion after electrifying stock surge (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-tesla/musks-tesla-stake-worth-30-billion-after-electrifying-stock-surge-idUSKBN1ZY2Y4) Philip de Wet: Elon Musk's family owns an emerald mine in Zambia (https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2) Will Evans and Alyssa Jeong Perry: Tesla says its factory is safer. But it left injuries off the books (https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/)

How does the mass media function in American society? Is the media landscape really an egalitarian one, wherein news outlets aim to attract audiences by presenting information in a value-neutral way? According to Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, nah: they say the mass media is a system of propaganda that functions, ultimately, to preserve and protect the interests of media company shareholders, their advertisers, and governmental and corporate sources. But are they right? How has their model, originally published in 1988, stood up to the test of time? Are there distinctions to be made between organizations like The New York Times and Fox News? We're dissecting the mass media not as a cabal of nefarious execs scheming to deceive the public, but rather as a set of bureaucracies and incentives oriented, fundamentally, around the bottom line and maintaining the status quo. Before that: when to shower during quarantine, cologne is superfluous trash, and the myth of Elon Musk as a self-made innovator who's invested in the welfare of humanity (he's not). Intro and break music courtesy of Chris Giuliano (https://www.instagram.com/chris_giuliano_gs/). Works Cited Alex Graham: A Deep Dive Into Elon Musk's Investments (https://www.toptal.com/finance/venture-capital-consultants/elon-musks-investments) Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/78912/manufacturing-consent-by-edward-s-herman-and-noam-chomsky/) Jerry Hirsch: Elon Musk's growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies (https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-20150531-story.html) Julia Carrie Wong: Tesla workers say they pay the price for Elon Musk's big promises (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/tesla-workers-pay-price-elon-musk-failed-promises) Matt Robinson and Zeke Faux: When Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon-musk-tried-to-destroy-tesla-whistleblower-martin-tripp) Noel Randewich: Musk's Tesla stake worth $30 billion after electrifying stock surge (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-stocks-tesla/musks-tesla-stake-worth-30-billion-after-electrifying-stock-surge-idUSKBN1ZY2Y4) Philip de Wet: Elon Musk's family owns an emerald mine in Zambia (https://www.businessinsider.co.za/how-elon-musks-family-came-to-own-an-emerald-mine-2018-2) Will Evans and Alyssa Jeong Perry: Tesla says its factory is safer. But it left injuries off the books (https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is-safer-but-it-left-injuries-off-the-books/)

In this fourth installment in the epic DHP Villains Woodrow Wilson series, we're detail-stripping what CJ considers to be perhaps the single most important piece of writing in Woodrow Wilson's career, the essay "The Study of Administration," which was published in the July 1887 issue of Political Science Quarterly, when Wilson was only 30 years old and just 2 years into his professional academic career. Wilson never significantly deviated from the ideas laid down in this essay over the remainder of his academic career; he also did quite a lot of implement them as President of the United States, and one can see the influence of these ideas on the growth & development of the US government's administrative apparatus ever since. (Though the real-world results have been far from the ideal of benevolence, efficiency, and transparency that Wilson described!) Join CJ as he takes this essay apart with critical analysis, and, near the end, shares the insights of Alexis de Tocqueville who, writing approximately 50 years before Wilson wrote "The Study of Administration," identified and warned about just the sort of mixture of democracy and bureaucratic despotism that men like Wilson would eventually advocate & usher in. Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon, SubscribeStar, or Bitbacker. CJ's official DHP Amazon Wish List Other ways to support the show Links & Info for the School Sucks Virtual Summit, coming March 7, 14 & 21 2020 The School Sucks Ideas into Action Virtual Summit The Summit Explained in 1 Minute When signing up, be sure to use promo code PROFCJ to save 30% off the price of the event (& to make sure CJ gets paid for referring you!; External Links "The Study of Administration" by Woodrow Wilson CJ's Picks: Amazon Affiliate Links Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism (American Intellectual Culture) by Ronald J. Pestritto Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings: The Essential Political Writings edited by Ronald J. Pestritto Propaganda by Edward Bernays Public Opinion (Critical Assessment of Functional Democratic Government) by Walter Lipmann Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II (Bantam Classics) by Alexis de Tocqueville Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive,” Noam Chomsky is a pioneering American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called “the father of modern linguistics”, Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. Chomsky has been a hugely influential figure in the international anti-war movement –and an unrelenting critic of international power. In Manufacturing Consent, Chomsky, together with Edward Herman, skilfully analyse the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news. He holds a joint appointment as Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona, and is the author of more than 100 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. In this fascinating and timely interview, Professor Chomsky shares his views on the urgent environmental crises we are facing today—and says, following the recent IPCC report, that it is indeed “time to panic” about climate change (he is also very worried about growing nuclear challenges).  He talks about the disastrous impact of the U.S Republican Party over decades, a denialist organisation, and discusses the emergence, and dangers, of growing climate nationalism and fascism in the US. Chomsky argues that the US urgently needs a Green New Deal, a theme at the heart of his recent book with Robert Pollen, The Political Economy of Climate Change and the Green New Deal.  He notes the way the Green New deal is discussed in the media is a continuation of a massive propaganda to demonize the work of government over several decades. While acknowledging the impact we can have as individuals by modifying our personal consumption, Chomsky argues that these personal choices don't measure up against the massive decisions on a national and global level, for example, stopping fossil fuel companies relentlessly developing new production facilities. Chomsky sees great potential for social protest, noting the recent impact of Extinction Rebellion and the Sunrise movement in the US. The post Episode 84: Interview with pioneering linguist, social critic, and political activist on the environmental crises we are facing appeared first on The Sustainability Agenda.

Americans are watching more media than ever before, but trusting it less. Why and how is that possible? Journalist Matt Taibbi reflects on those questions in a piercing analysis of the mainstream media system, drawing on the work of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, as well as many decades of experience in the trenches of the press. Taibbi discusses why we should think of the media as a consumer product. Resources: Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes us Despise One Another OR Books, 2019 The post How the Mainstream Media Monetizes Anger appeared first on KPFA.

Mickey and Chase spend the hour with media scholar Alan Macleod, for a discussion on how the 1988 Edward Herman/Noam Chomsky propaganda model applies to modern media, with examples including…

Dr. Alan McLeod has done extensive analysis of the past two decades of media coverage on Venezuela ,since the election of Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution. He joins us today from Scotland to share some of that analysis and one particularly interesting observation. Corporate media has used Venezuela, “consistently demonized and misrepresented in the US press,” to pressure left-leaning political movements conform with and even promote aggressive American foreign policy. We look at the current case of Bernie Sanders and his positions on regime change in Venezuela to illustrate this process of policing narratives and manufacturing consent for meddling and aggression.  We also talk about how regime change operations against countries with strong socialist policies are driven not just by the desire for domination and the pursuit of resources. They’re also used to manipulate politics at home: to suppress anti-imperialist dissent and to subvert the rise of left-oriented populist movements. MacLeod, an expert in sociology, media theory and analysis, is a writer, and a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. His research interests include social media, Latin American politics and propaganda. He is the author of 2018 book titled: Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of fake news and misreporting and he is currently working on a project to update and refine the Propaganda Model of Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky. FOLLOW him on Twitter at @AlanRMacLeod Around the Empire is listener supported, independent media. Pitch in if you can at Patreon: patreon.com/aroundtheempire or paypal.me/aroundtheempirepod. Find all links at aroundtheempire.com. SUBSCRIBE on YouTube. FOLLOW @aroundtheempire and @joanneleon. SUBSCRIBE/FOLLOW on iTunes, iHeart, Spotify, Google Play, Facebook or on your preferred podcast app. Recorded on March 7, 2019. Music by Fluorescent Grey. Reference Links: Venezuela-Baiting: How Media Keep Anti-Imperialist Dissent in Check, FAIR, Alan MacLeod Book: Bad News from Venezuela: Twenty years of fake news and misreporting (2018) (Routledge Focus on Communication and Society) Twitter 2/3/19 THREAD on Venezuela media coverage, Alan MacLeod Manufacturing Consent for the 2018 Elections in Venezuela and Colombia (2018), Alan MacLeod, Media Theory Journal Chavista ‘thugs’ vs. opposition ‘civil society’: western media on Venezuela (2019), Alan MacLeod, SAGE Journals Was Hugo Chávez to Blame? Media Depictions of Polarisation in Venezuela, 1998–2013, Alan MacLeod, Bulletin of Latin American Research. Society for Latin American Studies A Force for Democracy? Representations of the US Government in American Coverage of Venezuela (2019), Alan MacLeod, frontiers in Communication Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014, Noam Chomsky on Venezuela, audio clip from Ralph Nader Radio Hour, March 2, 2019  

In Episode 78 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Matt Taibbi, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award, about his latest book, Hate, INC. Matt Taibbi is someone who truly needs no introduction. His polemical, but also highly illustrative and expository writing stands apart from his contemporaries, and the significance of his contributions, particularly to the public debate during the 2008 financial crisis cannot be understated. He served as an interpreter for what was, in his own words, “a crime story that most people mistakenly thought of as an economic story.” His attacks on those he identified as being chiefly responsible for the crisis were relentless, and in a media environment tenanted and owned by government apologists and banking sycophants, they were noticeably ruthless and unforgiving. In an article he penned in the spring of 2010 titled, “The Great American Bubble Machine,” Taibbi referred to the investment bank Goldman Sachs as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” Fortunately for Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi has since turned his attention towards the media itself, embarking on an ambitious project to update Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s Manufacturing Consent, for the 21st century, as a serialized book that he’s been releasing through sub-stack. The majority of this conversation deals with the subject of that book, which is a sort of operational manual for those looking to understand how journalists and the media shape social reality. When Manufacturing Consent was first published in 1988, the media landscape was still largely dominated by print and broadcast television. We’ve since gone through two, major technological disruptions, first with cable, and then with the Internet, both of which altered the traditional pathways through which governments and big business try to shape and control public opinion. Matt and Demetri discuss these changes at length, including the amplification of “flak” through social media, the new orthodoxies of groupthink, as well as an exploration of victimhood hierarchies as understood through Herman and Chomsky’s “worthy vs. unworthy victims” framework. Finally, Matt Taibbi and Demetri discuss the circus that is the media’s political coverage, including some amazing stories from Matt’s time on the 2016 campaign trail, as well as a scathing critique of his old buddies at Goldman Sachs, who are back in the news over their role in a scheme to defraud the Malaysian government and its citizens of billions of dollars through the use of a state-owned investment fund known as 1MDB. If you want access to this part of the conversation, as well as a transcript of the full episode along with this week’s 14-page rundown, which includes an updated outline of the propaganda model and a timeline of important events in the evolution of the news business, head over to HiddenForces.io or subscribe directly through our Patreon page at Patreon.com/hiddenforces. Subscribers instantly gain access to our entire library of content, including nearly 80 transcripts, close to 60 rundowns, and overtime segments going back to the end of December 2018. Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou Join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter at @hiddenforcespod

 Mediawatch's midweek catch-up with Lately. This week Jeremy Rose speaks to Bryan Crump about the 30th anniversary of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's Manufacturing Consent; John Pilger discussing state propaganda on Russia's RT network; and, how two former National MPs took to media punditry over the summer break.

 Mediawatch's midweek catch-up with Lately. This week Jeremy Rose speaks to Bryan Crump about the 30th anniversary of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's Manufacturing Consent; John Pilger discussing state propaganda on Russia's RT network; and, how two former National MPs took to media punditry over the summer break.

“What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief — for our own lives not being as they should?” asks Johann Hari. “What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost yet still need?” In his new book, Lost Connections, Hari advances an argument both radical and obvious: Depression and anxiety are more than just chemical imbalances in the brain. They are the result of our social environments, our relationships, our political contexts — our lives, in short. Hari, who has struggled with depression since his youth, went on a journey to try to understand the social causes of mental illness, the ones we prefer not to talk about because changing them is harder than handing out a pill. What he returned with is a book that claims to be about depression but is actually about the ways we’ve screwed up modern society and created a world that leaves far too many of us alienated, anxious, despairing, and lost.   The philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti famously said, “It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.” So that, then, is the question Hari and I consider in this conversation: How sick, really, is our society?  Books: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This series, from 1983, gave me a chance to ponder issues, concerning the power and responsibility of journalistic media, that had preoccupied me every since I had begun working for CBC Radio twelve years before. Two "hooks" provided the occasion. The first was the calling of a Royal Commission to consider the problem of growing monopoly in the newspaper business. This was the Kent Commission, after commissioner Tom Kent, which reported in 1981. The second was the publication, in 1980, of the book which gave the series its title, Anthony Smith's The Geo-Politics of Information, a book on the clamour in what was then generally called the Third World for a New World Information Order, so-called, one not totally dominated by Western media. Both of these question are addressed - the history (and myth) of the free press in Part One, the New World Information Order debate in Part Two - but the series also allowed me to go further. Part Three looks at foreign news and draws heavily on the work of Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. Chomsky had recently published, with Edward Herman, a two volume work called The Political Economy of Human Rights, which had had a huge influence in shaping my view of media. In these books Chomsky and Herman show how a nominally free press faithfully reproduces what they call "imperial ideology." Said, for his part, had just brought out Covering Islam, a book in which he brought the thesis of his celebrated Orientalism into the present with a consideration of contemporary news coverage of Islamic countries. The final show of the set focused on the news industry's "mode of production" and the ways in which it shapes its finished product. One notable thing about this series was the number of prominent scholars in the field who agreed to take part. I have mentioned Chomsky and Said, but there was also Stuart Hall, James Curran, Gaye Tuchman, Lewis Lapham, Todd Gitlin and many others. Another was the strength of the interviews I recorded for the series, which led me into my first questioning of the documentary format in which I was then working. Documentaries have narrative requirements which tend to dictate how the component interviews will be edited. Mad Magazine used to joke, in a satire on the New York Times famous slogan, "all the news thats fit to print," that it presented "all the news that fits the print"; and documentaries are the same. The "clips" that will be cut out of the interviews will be those that fit the narrative requirements of the documentary. This generally precludes any sustained attention to the individual character or context of the thinkers who are quoted. Reflection on this issue led to the approach that I generally took in my work for Ideas after 1990 in which my subjects, wherever possible, were presented one-at-a-time and in depth.The participants in the series were as follows:Part One: Paul Rutherford, James Curran, Anthony Smith, Stuart Hall, Lewis Lapham, Carman Cumming, Todd GitlinPart Two: Juan Somavia, Rohan Samarajiva, Herbert Schiller, Anthony Smith, Tom McPhail, Bill Harley, Barry ZwickerPart Three: Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Noam Chomsky, James Aronson, Tom KentPart Four: Stuart Hall, Lewis Lapham, Gaye Tuchman, James Curran,Todd Gitlin, Carman Cumming, Paul Rutherford, Jeremy Wilson, Noam ChomskyA transcript of the series is available on the Transcripts page of the site. 

On this week's broadcast of the Global Research News Hour, we pay tribute to noted media critic and anti-war activist, and U.S. foreign policy dissident Edward Herman, on the occasion of his recent passing. Guests include in order of appearance, the writer, journalist and broadcaster Stephen Lendman, Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), Writer and broadcaster Ann Garrison, and Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored.

Night Terrors:  Season 2:  The House in Cypress CanyonSometimes when you find something hidden in a house, you might want to leave it alone - even with the best of intentions.THE HOUSE IN CYPRESS CANYONReleased:  January 21, 2017Duration: 32:10Size: 73.6 MBAdapted from Robert L. Richard's story, "The House in Cypress Canyon," through the Generic Radio Workship Script LibraryFeatured in the cast were:Nick Armstrong as SamRandy Streu as JerryShane Harris as James A WoodsKatherine Freymuth as EllenPersephone Rose as the real estate agentJames C. Ferguson as 1st OfficerDave Morgan as 2nd OfficerGwendolyn Jensen Woodard as Dr. Westleaf and the Radio DispatcherEdward Herman as the announcerother roles were played by our actorsandMark Bruzee as your host, Harbinger.The story was written by Robert L. RichardsMusic by Celestial Aeon Project.Post Production by MJ CogburnThe Series Producer is Mark BruzeeExecutive Producer for Darker Projects is MJ Cogburn.

The 2014 Pendy Award votes are in and we had more votes than ever! Thank you to everyone who voted, results coming in early January! And speaking of awards, Pendant received THIRTY-EIGHT official nominations in the Audio Verse Awards. Thank you to everyone who voted for us there, too! And hey, what are you doing tonight? Watching The Librarians on TNT, that's what! "Phantom Canyon" co-creator/co-writer Geoffrey Thorne is a writer/producer on staff, so be sure to check it out and support your Pendulums! Jordan and Edward Herman discuss alcohol, comic relief and life getting in the way of Pendant, and we've got a veritable smorgasbord of preview trailers to whet your appetite. NOW MAKE WITH THE EYEBROW SMOOTHING. --Please leave us a rating on iTunes!-- Website: pendantaudio.com Twitter: @pendantweb Facebook: facebook.com/pendantaudio Tumblr: pendantaudio.tumblr.com YouTube: youtube.com/pendantproductions

The Politics of Genocide and the 20th anniversary of the tragic mass killings in Rwanda in 1994. Our first guest is Robin Philpot, a Montreal author of the new book Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, from tragedy to useful Imperial fiction. Our second guest is Edward Herman, professor Emeritus at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the Monthly Review Press book The Politics of Genocide.   The post The Morning Mix – Project Censored appeared first on KPFA.

Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media’s most studied theories and given it a facelift. In Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2013), Goss revisits the model created by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent. The filters remain, but Goss pushes the model into the modern context of new media models and expanded global exportation. “Far from condemning journalism,” Goss writes, “I hope to see it more closely approximate its mythologies about itself.” “Rebooting” is an important work, relevant not just to scholars, but all consumers of media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media’s most studied theories and given it a facelift. In Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2013), Goss revisits the model created by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent. The filters remain, but Goss pushes the model into the modern context of new media models and expanded global exportation. “Far from condemning journalism,” Goss writes, “I hope to see it more closely approximate its mythologies about itself.” “Rebooting” is an important work, relevant not just to scholars, but all consumers of media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media’s most studied theories and given it a facelift. In Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2013), Goss revisits the model created by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent. The filters remain, but Goss pushes the model into the modern context of new media models and expanded global exportation. “Far from condemning journalism,” Goss writes, “I hope to see it more closely approximate its mythologies about itself.” “Rebooting” is an important work, relevant not just to scholars, but all consumers of media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian Michael Goss, professor of communication at St. Louis University in Madrid, has taken one of media’s most studied theories and given it a facelift. In Rebooting the Herman and Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century (Peter Lang, 2013), Goss revisits the model created by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent. The filters remain, but Goss pushes the model into the modern context of new media models and expanded global exportation. “Far from condemning journalism,” Goss writes, “I hope to see it more closely approximate its mythologies about itself.” “Rebooting” is an important work, relevant not just to scholars, but all consumers of media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices