Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media

Introduction

Preface

A propaganda model

Worthy and unworthy victims

Legitimizing versus meaningless Third World elections : El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua

The KGB-Bulgarian plot to kill the Pope : free-market disinformation as "news"

The Indochina wars (I) : Vietnam

The Indochina wars (II) : Laos and Cambodia

Conclusions

Appendix 1 : The U.S. official observers in Guatemala, July 1-2, 1984

Appendix 2: Tagliabue's finale on the Bulgarian connection : a case study in bias

Appendix 3 : Braestrup's Big story: some "freedom house exclusives".