Spannende Lektüre bei PR-Watch: Has the Internet Changed the Propaganda Model?

In their groundbreaking 1988 book, Manufacturing Consent, professors Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky not only explained, but documented with extensive case studies, how mass media and public opinion are shaped in a democracy. Twenty years later, can their „propaganda model“ still be used to explain modern media distortions? That was one of the main questions discussed last week at a conference in Windsor, Ontario, titled „20 Years of Propaganda?“ Organized by Dr. Paul Boin, the conference drew hundreds of scholars and activists including myself, and more than 1,000 people attended a closing speech by Chomsky on May 17.