Chomsky and Herman’s Propaganda Model: Its Applicability to the Protests in Ecuador in October 2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 337-346
Author(s):  
Fernando Casado Gutiérrez ◽  
Rebeca Sánchez Figuera
Keyword(s):  
Propaganda Model

scholarly journals The Chernobyl disaster: A case study on the information policy of the Kádár regime

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Dalma Kékesdi-Boldog
Keyword(s):  
Information Policy ◽  
Chernobyl Disaster ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
The Press ◽  
Opinion Polls

While the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party was on the rhetorical level committed to the Soviet agitation and propaganda model, in practice it increasingly deviated from it during the 1980s. As the press reflected upon the events of the day, propaganda could manifestly be at odds with reality, creating a reality gap, that is, one between what people were told to see and what they actually saw. This paper offers a case study on the communication of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Hungary and looks into how it was reflected in party communiques, the party newspaper, and opinion polls. It asks the question of whether ‘accuracy’ or ‘partisanship’ prevailed in the official communication of the disaster.

scholarly journals Exploring Cultural Memory Through Political Economy—Manufacturing History in the Documentary The Battle for Hitler’s Supership (2005)

Nordlit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane C. Bockwoldt
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Manufacturing History ◽  
Self Presentations

This article suggests supplementing Astrid Erll’s framework for analysis of memory making media with key insights from Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model. An analysis of the documentary The Battle for Hitler’s Supership that portrays the story of the German battleship Tirpitz, which the British Royal Air Force sunk in Tromsø in 1944, will illustrate the benefits of this approach. The combination of a formal analysis with an examination of the structural conditions that predispose the medium’s appearance provide valuable insights into how and why a specific dominant message that is conveyed by the documentary emerges. I show that the political economy behind the TV production has an impact on the documentary’s content and form and argue that the evolving narrative not only depicts a story about the specific events of November 1944 but also about current national self-perceptions and self-presentations.

America as Ambivalent Superpower in Recent Mexican, Australian, and Chinese Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Christian Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
The State ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
The Us ◽  
Foreign Media ◽  
And Gender

America as a superpower is alleged to be able to set the news agenda through framing devices that even foreign media often mimics. A noteworthy theory explaining how this agenda is set is given by E.S. Hermann and Noam Chomsky in their propaganda model (PM). The PM model would assume educated elites in the US and in other comparable states (like China) will simply reiterate the framing narrative given by a state. Five films from non-American directors are selected and several issues the state has a consensus on are used (immigration, Iraq) to test the PM. In only three cases was the PM confirmed and even in those not for the reasons given by Hermann and Chomsky. In two cases the PM was moderately disconfirmed. While the PM is a valuable model, it needs refinement by taking more seriously how ideas by social groups in society such as feminism and gender equality complicate the agenda of the state. The conclusion makes recommendations how the PM can be better built to examine how non-Americans view America through film and the mass media.

A Propaganda Model (1988)

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Edward S. Herman ◽  
Noam Chomsky
Keyword(s):  
Propaganda Model

Manufacturing Consent in Venezuela: Media Misreporting of a Country, 1998–2014

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-290
Author(s):  
Alan MacLeod
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Uk

This article assesses Western news media coverage of Venezuela between 1998 and 2014. It found that the major newspapers in the UK and US reproduce the ideology of Western governments, ignoring strong empirical evidence challenging those positions. The press portrayed Venezuela in an overwhelmingly negative light, presenting highly contested minority opinions as facts while barely mentioning competing arguments, as Herman and Chomsky’s (2002) propaganda model would predict. After conducting interviews, it is clear that a small cadre of pre-selected journalists is immersed into a highly antagonistic newsroom culture that sees itself as the “resistance” to the Venezuelan government and its purpose to defeat it. As a result, hegemony of thought reigns and some journalists report self-censorship.

Chomsky’s Discourse on US Foreign Policy, Media and Human Rights Interface: Implications to Indian Media

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ashok Antony D’Souza
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Us Imperialism ◽  
The Us

The United States (US) is usually thought of as a nation representing freedom, democracy and human rights. However, as shown by Noam Chomsky and a few others, the US has turned out to be the most dominant imperialist nation as it is a ‘super power’ with immense political and economic clout. The US has been involved in human rights’ violations, Chomsky claims, with an intention of capturing markets for its goods and services, but has been successful in veiling it by shaping popular consciousness through its hegemony over popular media. Chomsky argues that the US has been preparing the ground for human rights’ violations by the use of ‘Propaganda Model’ which ‘filters’ reality in such a way as to give the ‘news’ that is perverted to serve the needs of the ruling elite. For instance, in many of the ‘news’ reports the weapons of mass destruction used by the US are attributed human traits while the citizens of the enemy nation are presented as nameless “aggressors” or “terrorists”. The relevance of the paper rests on working out the implications of Chomsky’s perspectives on the use of media by the US to serve its propagandist model and the implications of such tendencies to nations like India. The paper also tries to work out the possible way out of this impasse. Keywords: Culture of terrorism, human rights, media, propaganda model, US imperialism

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