Tag: Propaganda

It is factual that disinformation stories started to acquire an endemic status in the last couple of decades. The wide dissemination of these stories by entities with an immediate intention to deceive their target audience for an ideological reason is named propaganda (1). Propaganda is worth studying since it constitutes the root for many current socio-political conflicts around the world, usually advocating for selfish national economic and geopolitical interests. The long-lasting issue between Iraq and the United States (US) is one of the most striking examples of the influence a propaganda campaign can have in shaping the socio-political sphere in

Published in 1988, Chomsky and Herman’s book– Manufacturing Consent: The political economy of the mass media, is more up to date than ever. In the volume, the authors theorize that U.S. mass media and communication apparatuses “are effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions and self-censorship, and without overt coercion”. “Like other approaches within the critical-Marxist tradition, it is concerned with exploring the relationship between ideology, communicative power and social class interest”[1], or in short, the propaganda model of communication. It represents a “general theory of the Free