"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are
just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary,
because .. To take action in the face of a corrupt government
entails risks of harm to life and loved ones...Hence, most
propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only
to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all... "
Michael Rivero
[see also
Manufacturing
Consent ]
Kalaimamani �Film News� Anandan -
Sadhanaigal Padaitha Thamizh Thiraipada Varalaru
(Tamil Film History and Its Achievements) � in Tamil
*Noam
Chomsky, Edward S. Herman
Manufacturing Consent : The Political Economy of the Mass Media
1988 [**also
at amazon.co.uk]
"...Rejecting the common perception of
the press as cantankerous, obstinate and ubiquitous in its search for
truth, this book sets out to show that an underlying elite consensus
largely structures all facets of the news. The authors dissect the way
in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing shape the news,
and how issues are framed and topics chosen. They contrast the double
standards behind accounts of free elections, a free press and
governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the
Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam;
and between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and
genocide under Pol Pot.
The result is an account of the
propagandist nature of the communications media, and of how they can be
read, and their function interpreted, in a new way...an underlying elite
consensus largely structures all facets of the news (and accounts for)
the double standards behind accounts of free elections, a free press and
governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the
Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of Vietnam;
and between the genocide in Cambodia under a pro-American government and
genocide under Pol Pot..."
*Mark
Achbar (Editor) -
Manufacturing Consent : Noam Chomsky and the Media Institute of Policy
Alternatives, May 1996) [a companion to the book by Noam Chomsky]
*Ganesan, A -
The Press in Tamil Nadu and the Struggle for Freedom, 1917-1937, 1988
*Ed Herman -
The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism,
2001
*Pandian, M.S.S. -
The Image Trap : M G Ramachandran in Film and Politics, 1992
* Neil Postman -
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public
Discourse in the Age of Show Business
