  edward s. herman (born april 7, 1925) is professor emeritus of finance at the wharton school of business of the university of pennsylvania"faculty list".; april 3, 2014 and a media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy. he also teaches at annenberg school for communication at the university of pennsylvania. he is perhaps best known for developing the propaganda model of media criticism with noam chomsky. in 1967, herman was among more than 500 writers and editors who signed the "writers and editors war tax protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay the 10% vietnam war tax surcharge proposed by president johnson."writers and editors war tax protest" january 30, 1968 new york post.history of war tax resistance; nwtrcc; january 18, 2004 herman received his bachelor of arts from the university of pennsylvania in 1945 and phd in 1953 from the university of california, berkeley. ==herman and chomsky== ===vietnam=== herman and noam chomsky challenged the veracity of media accounts of war crimes and repression by the vietnamese communists, stating that "the basic sources for the larger estimates of killings in the north vietnamese land reform were persons affiliated with the cia or the saigon propaganda ministry" and "the nlf-drv 'bloodbath' at hue [in south vietnam] was constructed on flimsy evidence indeed". commenting on postwar vietnam, chomsky and herman argued that "[i]n a phenomenon that has few parallels in western experience, there appear to have been close to zero retribution deaths in postwar vietnam." this they described as a "miracle of reconciliation and restraint".chomsky and herman (1979), the washington connection and third world fascism, south end press, pp. 342, 352, 28. herman and chomsky's assessment of the human rights character of postwar vietnam was at odds with that of most scholars. jacqueline desbarats estimated that one million south vietnamese were sentenced to reeducation camps, often being confined under unhealthy conditions for several years, and that the government of vietnam may have carried out 100,000 extrajudicial executions between 1975 and 1985.desbarats, j. "population redistribution in the socialist republic of vietnam" population and development review, vol 13, no 1, 1987, pp. 43-76; desbarats, jacqueline "represssion in the 
1925_births 20th-century_American_writers 21st-century_American_writers American_journalists American_media_critics American_political_writers American_tax_resisters Living_people University_of_California,_Berkeley_faculty University_of_Pennsylvania_faculty