#╽📖 ⸻ 【dichotomization】

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         𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐍 𝐅𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑 of 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐋𝐘𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍     Lovingly posted with permission from @chio-chan2. (click 'PEREGRIN FLETCHER' for full character sheet)

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Today’s book is:

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. S. Herman & Noam Chomsky

In this pathbreaking work, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order. Based on a series of case studies—including the media’s dichotomous treatment of “worthy” versus “unworthy” victims, “legitimizing” and “meaningless” Third World elections, and devastating critiques of media coverage of the U.S. wars against Indochina—Herman and Chomsky draw on decades of criticism and research to propose a Propaganda Model to explain the media’s behavior and performance. Their new introduction updates the Propaganda Model and the earlier case studies, and it discusses several other applications. These include the manner in which the media covered the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement and subsequent Mexican financial meltdown of 1994-1995, the media’s handling of the protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund in 1999 and 2000, and the media’s treatment of the chemical industry and its regulation.

What emerges from this work is a powerful assessment of how propagandistic the U.S. mass media are, how they systematically fail to live up to their self-image as providers of the kind of information that people need to make sense of the world, and how we can understand their function in a radically new way.

You can buy the book here (Amazon link).

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can we see a little of dchotimization? I can't spell sorry lol

Man I just finished Pros, I ain't got nothin' for ya.

But if you will accept, here is one part of the outline:

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I LOVED the chapter but what was with iggy and perry?!?!

*whistles innocently*

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Hello! I was wondering, I noticed you made veronica the ai as an acronym but scourge was also capitalized and I was wondering is that also an acronym for something?

Good Eye!

Sinners Contesting Order (and) Unity (while) Relentlessly Guarding Evil

SCOURGE! 😉