government’s urgent claims of a shipment of MIGs to Nicaragua on Novem...
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- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media whole source · open book
government’s urgent claims of a shipment of MIGs to Nicaragua on November 5, 1984, the media do not stop to ponder the bias that is inherent in the priority assigned to government-supplied raw material, or the possibility that the government might be manipulating the news,2 imposing its own agenda, and deliberately diverting attention from other material.3 It requires a macro, alongside a micro– (story-by-story), view of media operations, to see the pattern of manipulation and systematic bias.
chapter: 1 A Propaganda Model