Filtering the News: Essays on Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model
Filtering the Newsis "well-researched and precisely argued . . . a credible collection of essays that amounts to a devastating attack on the superficiality, venality, and corporate tractability of the contemporary mass media." --Canadian Book Review Annual"Filtering the Newsexplores the continuing critical relevance of Herman and Chomsky's influential propaganda model for the analysis of media reporting of the environment, the war against Iraq, journalism post 9/11, media reporting of the Israel/Palestine conflict and other case studies. Jeffery Klaehn is to be congratulated for bringing together this significant collection of essays by leading scholars in the field of media and communication studies which the general public, students, and scholars alike will find invaluable." --Bob Franklin, Editor ofJournalism Studies,Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University"This collection is an important contribution to the literature and it deserves to be widely read."  --Fifth-Estate-Online: The International Journal of Radical Mass Media Criticism(Filtering the Newsbook review)