Comments on: Why American Media Sucks http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2005/07/08/why-american-media-sucks/ Tue, 10 May 2011 20:43:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2005/07/08/why-american-media-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Daniel Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:40:30 +0000 http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2005/07/08/why-american-media-sucks/#comment-296 Thanks, I'll look into it. Thanks, I’ll look into it.

]]> By: James Cape http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2005/07/08/why-american-media-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-295 James Cape Fri, 08 Jul 2005 23:35:40 +0000 http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2005/07/08/why-american-media-sucks/#comment-295 You'll probably like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent" rel="nofollow">Manufacturing Consent</a>, which contains the core thesis that #2 is a gross simplification of, along with the role played by what Herman terms "flak" -- examples given include a businessman in Boston getting PBS to drop an environmental expose because it was deemed "anti-business". It's popular enough that you can probably find it at (at least) university libraries or get it <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375714498" rel="nofollow">from the publisher</a>, but I've didn't find it at either of the big chain coffee bars -- erm, bookstores -- that I looked for it at. If you do look for it, make sure you get the actual book, not the companion-to-the-movie-about-the-book book (which I did see at Borders). You’ll probably like Manufacturing Consent, which contains the core thesis that #2 is a gross simplification of, along with the role played by what Herman terms “flak” — examples given include a businessman in Boston getting PBS to drop an environmental expose because it was deemed “anti-business”.

It’s popular enough that you can probably find it at (at least) university libraries or get it from the publisher, but I’ve didn’t find it at either of the big chain coffee bars — erm, bookstores — that I looked for it at. If you do look for it, make sure you get the actual book, not the companion-to-the-movie-about-the-book book (which I did see at Borders).

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