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Extract From Chapter 11: Disciplined Media – Professional Conformity To Power

12th November 2010

HOW DO YOU SHOOT BABIES? Facing execution for his role in the murder of more than 1 million people, many of them children, Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess, reflected on his life and works: ‘Today, I →

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Extract, Of Big Brother And ‘Auntie Beeb’ – The Propaganda Model

12th November 2010

In their seminal work ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media’ (Pantheon, 1988), Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky set out their ‘propaganda model’ of the media. In a subsequent article written in →

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