Rebooting the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model in the Twenty-First Century

by Brian Michael Goss

Overview

Using the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model that was introduced in 1988, Goss offers a rigorous and accessible portrait of contemporary news media. Following a current survey of media ownership and news worker routines, in a series of case studies, he shows how recent news discourse has developed an Us/Them narrative.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433116209
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	05/31/2013
Series:	Intersections in Communications and Culture: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives , #30
Pages:	234
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Brian Michael Goss (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana) is a professor in the communication faculty at Saint Louis University, Madrid, Spain. His principal research interests revolve around mass media in its many manifestations. Dr. Goss is the author of Global Auteurs: Politics in the Films of Almodóvar, von Trier, and Winterbottom (Peter Lang, 2009) and co-editor (with Christopher Chávez) of Identity: Beyond Tradition and McWorld Neo-Liberalism (2013).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: News Media Is Not a Sofa or a Plate of Paella 1

Part I Contexts

Chapter 1 Owning the News Discourse 15

Chapter 2 News in a Neoliberal Milieu 39

Chapter 3 Ventriloquism and Other Routines 63

Part II Texts

Chapter 4 Weed Whackers and the Phantom Menace 93

Chapter 5 Feral Peril: Broadsheets and the British Street 119

Chapter 6 To "Tell the Truth!" in Flak Style 141

Chapter 7 "Eye Rolling" and Rolling Over: Self-Reflexive Criticisms of Journalism in New and Old Media 167

Afterword: Reboot, Retool 197

References 201

Index 223

Editorial Reviews

This is a work of critical fealty. It updates, revises and extends Herman and Chomsky's famous Propaganda Model of the media in a consistently interesting and attractively written way. (James Curran, Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London)
This book offers a fresh assessment of the most influential critical tool in news media analysis in the world today. Anyone interested in how the news enables or disables democratic governance should read it. Brian Michael Goss writes with clarity and passion. His careful appraisals of scholarly work and nuanced readings of recent episodes affirm the vitality of an amended propaganda model in the face of glib dismissals and unrealistic expectations for digital media. The result is a major contribution to the political economy of news. It is a reboot in the ass for pollyannas everywhere. (John Nerone, University of Illinois)

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