Is journalism becoming propaganda?

In their 1988 book, ‘Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media’, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky described mainstream media corporations as businesses that sells the audience as a product to advertisers, and disseminates corporate and government propaganda, rather than news. Herman and Chomsky argue that their propaganda model of the press applies to all companies that share the basic economic structure of modern mass media corporations; manipulating and building consent for economic, social, and political policies and smearing dissenting voices. The James Forsyth story in The Times is just one example of this, equally issues such as the sacking of Nathan J. Robinson from The Guardian in February 2021 is another example of the propaganda model at play, where even the most liberal-leaning mainstream publication punished a journalist for criticising US military aid to Israel.

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