Behind the Invisible Curtain of Scholarly Criticism: revisiting the propaganda model

Klaehn, Jeffery

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“…As noted above and highlighted elsewhere (see, most notably, Klaehn, 2003a), the PM does not predict that media are closed to dissent. This is a rather basic point that critics of the PM often miss, which is (by this point in time) at best perplexing, especially considering that Herman and Chomsky had explicitly addressed this point in the opening pages of the original version of Manufacturing Consent, stating that: 'The news media are not a solid monolith on all issues' (Herman and Chomsky, 1988, xiii).…”

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“…Criticisms of the PM within the context of scholarly discourse have by this point in time been quite exhaustively rehearsed (Herman, 2000;Klaehn, 2002a;2003a;2005b;Mullen, 2008), yet misconceptions about the model continue to circulate widely: in textbooks, university departments, classrooms, and on the worldwide web. Herman (2000) comments that many of the initial critiques advanced against the PM 'displayed a barely-concealed anger, and in most of them the Propaganda Model was dismissed with a few superficial clichés (conspiratorial, simplistic, etc.…”

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“…Within individual news stories, preferred meanings are typically encoded into media texts, influencing how news articles are constructed vis-à-vis their headlines and leads, as well as overall story presentation, particularly in relation to choices of emphasis and overall tone. Encoding/decoding is associated with the work of Stuart Hall (1980), whereas Herman and Chomsky's PM is typically thought to be concerned to identify bias within media discourses (see Chomsky, 1989;Klaehn, 2002a;2002b;2003a;2006a;2006d;. The PM does not embrace encoding/decoding but is concerned to delineate the extent to which particular features of media texts (such as the aforementioned basic constituent elements of particular news stories) structure news discourses so as to encourage intended, preferred readings.…”

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“…The model highlights how ideology, communicative power and media texts link to social organization, cultural education and pervasive social, political and economic inequalities (see Chomsky, 1997a;1997b;Winter, 2007). The model suggests that mainstream commercial media are structurally predisposed to endorse, legitimize and promote the interests of power (Chomsky, 1989;Klaehn, 2002a;2002b;2003a; also see Bagdikian, 1992;Barker, 2009;Carey, 1995;Edwards and Cromwell, 2005;Herman, 1999;Herman and McChesney, 1997). Herman (cited in Klaehn, 2008) explains that the PM's theoretical origins reside in 'the economic model of industrial organization that traces back to the great British economist Alfred Marshall', which:…”

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“…The five filter elements outlined above constitute the foundations of the PM (see Herman, 2000;Klaehn, 2002a;2003a;2003b). Taken together, the five filters provide a framework that illuminates why and how structural dimensions encourage a systematic right-wing bias and limited range of debate within mainstream media discourses.…”

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The Propaganda Model: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

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This article provides an overview of the Propaganda Model and rehearses central theoretical considerations concerning the model's overall understanding of media behaviour. The article then advances a contemporary state-of-the-art discourse on the methodological techniques that may be utilized in applying the model, highlights potentially complementary approaches to the critical study of mass media behaviour and explores criticisms of the model.The 'Propaganda Model' (PM) of media operations advanced by Herman and Chomsky (1988) is analytically and conceptually concerned to engage with the question of how ideological and communicative power connect with economic, political and social power, and to explore the consequent effects upon media output. This article overviews the PM and highlights central arguments associated with the PM regarding overall patterns of media behaviour. The article then considers ways in which the PM may be applied, exploring the methodological techniques that may be utilized in applying the model. The article also highlights potentially complementary approaches to the critical study of mass media behaviour and explores criticisms of the model. The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model -An OverviewThe PM's five filter elements draw attention to the main structural constraints that impact overall patterns of media performance. Herman and Chomsky correctly observe that most mainstream media are themselves typically large corporations, 'controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces ' (Herman and Chomsky, 1988, 14). Their model suggests that ownership, size and profit ______________________________ Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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