Manufactured Consent

The press, the model says, doesn't lie — it filters. The filters have owners.

Herman and Chomsky's 'Manufacturing Consent' (1988) proposed a propaganda model: five filters — ownership, advertising, sourcing, flak, and ideology — that shape news without central direction. Documented: the book's paired case studies showing systematically unequal coverage of comparable atrocities. Its place on this map is as the sober counterweight: it explains coordinated-looking media behavior with no conspiracy at all, just structure. Lore quotes its title constantly while skipping that argument.