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November 14, 2017

Media Critic and "Manufacturing Consent" Co-Author Edward Herman Dies
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And the professor Edward Herman has died at the age of 92. He was author
of many books, including "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy
of the Mass Media," which he co-authored with Noam Chomsky. This is a
clip of Herman appearing in the film "The Brainwashing of My Dad."

Edward Herman: "The mainstream media are elite institutions. The
ownership of the media is concentrated in the hands of very wealthy
individuals. The media system is really a powerful set of structures.
Most people don't have a choice. They don't have a spectrum of available
choices that they can look at and say, 'Oh, I like this or that.' So you
have a very limited, constrained set of options, to begin with. So,
that's a bias that's built into the structure of the system."



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