Manufacturing Indifference: Searching for a New 'Propaganda Model'

Twenty years ago, a professor of finance at the Wharton School in Philadelphia and a far better known professor of linguistics at MIT set out to come with a way to explain how our media really works.Rather than offer a case study of coverage of one issue, or an analysis of this or that flaw or media "mistake," they set out to try to make sense of the way the media functions as a "system" what rules govern the behavior of media institutions in reporting on crisis abroad. They didn't call it a theory because they believed they were not being speculative but factual.