| Filtering The News Contributor(s): Klaehn, Jeffery (Author) |
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ISBN: 1551642603 ISBN-13: 9781551642604 Publisher: Black Rose Books OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model' argues that there are five classes of filters' in society that determine what is news; in other words, what gets printed in newspapers or broadcast by radio and television. They are: "ownership" (is the story in line with the media owner's interests); "advertising" (is the story in line with the advertiser's interests); "sourcing" (does the story come from government departments and/or other powerful players); "flack" (if the story is aired, can the subjects of it pose a real threat, like the government, big advertisers and other organized groups); and "ideology" (does the story justify political maneuvering and defend corporate interests around the world). Whether a news item is going to be used by the media or not is going to depend on if it can pass through these filters. "Filtering the News" begins with a critical review and assessment of the propaganda model, then applies Herman and Chomsky's model to a range of ongoing news events including Bush's war propaganda machine and the American mainstream media; Israeli propaganda; El Salvador and the question of intellectual responsibility; news coverage of near-genocide in occupied East Timor; the media on the environment; and Dan Rather and the problem with patriotism and American journalism, post-9/11. In the final chapters, Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model is revisited, and several common criticisms of the model are reflected upon and scrutinized. Contributors include: Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Bob Everton, Peter Eglin, Robert Jensen, Jeffery Klaehn, James Winter and Paul Boin. Jeffery Klaehn teaches sociology at the University of Guelph. Apart from being published in arange of scholarly journals, including "Portuguese Studies Review," "Cultural Dynamics," "Journalism Studies," and "The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology," he is the editor of "Studies in Popular Culture: Comic Books and Comic Book Culture," |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Essays - Political Science | Political Process - Media & Internet - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.08" W x 9.02" (0.77 lbs) 250 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky's 'propaganda model' argues that there are five classes of 'filters' in society which determine what is news: in other words, what gets printed in newspapers or broadcast by radio and television. Whether a news item is going to be used by the media, or not, is going to depend on whether it can pass through these filters. Filtering the News begins with a critical review and assessment of the propaganda model, then applies Herman and Chomsky's model to a range of ongoing news events. In the final chapters, several common criticisms of the model are reflected upon and scrutinized. Contributors include: Robert Babe, Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Peter Eglin, Robert Everton, RobertJensen, Jeffrey Klaehn, and James Winter. Jeffery Klaehn has been publishing in a wide range of scholarly journals. He is ediotor of the forthcoming Bound by Power: Intended Consequences (Black Rose Books) and of Comic Books and Comic Book Culture: Studies in Pop Culture. |
