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In an earlier study of Marlise Simons’s coverage of the Yugoslavia Tribunal in the New York Times, David Peterson and I described…
Edward Herman
Edward Samuel Herman (April 7, 1925 – November 11, 2017) . He wrote extensively on economics, political economy, foreign policy, and media analysis. Among his books are The Political Economy of Human Rights (2 vols, with Noam Chomsky, South End Press, 1979); Corporate Control, Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 1981); The "Terrorism" Industry (with Gerry O'Sullivan, Pantheon, 1990); The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader (Peter Lang, 1999); and Manufacturing Consent (with Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988 and 2002). In addition to his regular "Fog Watch" column in Z Magazine, he edited a web site, inkywatch.org, that monitors the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As the powerful seek domination their control of language is as important to their success as their possession of weapons to frighten…
B ush, Sharon, and the media are steadily breaking new ground in the use of language to put aggression, pacification, ethnic clean-…
Herman’s Original Piece Lippman’s Reply None of my alleged "misstatements" are misstatements, as I will try to show with brevity, with only…
Establishment politicians, media, and intellectuals use the word genocide with great abandon, but with a hugely politicized selectivity. It is an invidious…
Establishment politicians, media, and intellectuals use the word genocide with great abandon, but with a hugely politicized selectivity. It is an invidious…
The Tipton Three, recently released from Guantanamo, and telling their story to the British media, disclosed that they had first been captured…
“I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq” (Paul Wolfowitz, 2003—Note: These words have inspired the Iraqi…
I entered the Ordfront controversy as a critical student of propaganda and the manufacture of consent, and as a dissident analyst of…
T he U.S. and British invasion and occupation of Iraq was carried out in straightforward violation of the UN Charter’s prohibition of…