Editing Manufacturing Consent (section)

== Background ==

===Origins===
Chomsky credits the impetus of ''Manufacturing Consent'' to [[Alex Carey (writer)|Alex Carey]], the Australian [[Social psychology|social psychologist]], to whom  the book is dedicated.<ref>Chomsky, Noam. 1996. ''[[Class Warfare]]''. Pluto Press. p. 29:

"Ed Herman and I dedicated our book, ''Manufacturing Consent'', to him. He had just died. It was not intended as just a symbolic gesture. He got both of us started in a lot of this work."</ref> The book was greatly inspired by Herman's earlier financial research.

===Authorship===
Herman was a professor of finance at [[Wharton School]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Laferber|first=Walter|date=1988-11-06|title=Whose News?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/06/books/whose-news.html|access-date=2020-05-28|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and Chomsky is a linguist and activist scholar, who has written many other books, such as ''[[Towards a New Cold War]]''.<ref name=":0" /> Before ''Manufacturing Consent'' was published in 1988, the two authors had previously collaborated on the same subject. Their book ''[[Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda]]'', a book about American foreign policy and the media, was published in 1973. The publisher for the book, a subsidiary of [[WarnerMedia|Warner Communications Incorporated]], was deliberately put out of print after publishing 20,000 copies of the book, most of which were destroyed, so the book was not widely known.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chomsky|first=Noam|title=Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media: Talk Delivered at University of Wisconsin–Madison, March 15, 1989|url=https://chomsky.info/19890315/|access-date=2020-05-28|website=chomsky.info}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137463418 |title=Key Thinkers in Critical Communication Scholarship |date=2015 |language=en |doi=10.1057/9781137463418 |isbn=978-1-349-56468-2 |editor-last1=Lent |editor-last2=Amazeen |editor-first1=John A. |editor-first2=Michelle A. }}</ref>

According to Chomsky, "most of the book [''Manufacturing Consent'']" was the work of [[Edward S. Herman]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-21 |title=Edward S Herman: Media critic who held the press to account |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-s-herman-scholar-whose-radical-critiques-of-us-media-unpacked-the-fake-news-caricatured-by-a8067131.html |access-date=2020-05-28 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">[[Peter Wintonick|Wintonick, Peter]], and [[Mark Achbar]]. 1995. ''[[Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media]]''. Montreal: Black Rose Books.</ref>{{Rp|8}} Herman describes a rough division of labor in preparing the book whereby he was responsible for the preface and chapters 1–4 while Chomsky was responsible for chapters 5–7.<ref name=":2" />{{Rp|204}} According to Herman, the propaganda model described in the book was originally his idea, tracing it back to his 1981 book ''Corporate Control, Corporate Power''.<ref name=":2" />{{Rp|205}} The main elements of the propaganda model (though not so-called at the time) were discussed briefly in volume 1 chapter 2 of Herman and Chomsky's 1979 book ''[[The Political Economy of Human Rights]]'', where they argued, "Especially where the issues involve substantial U.S. economic and political interests and relationships with friendly or hostile states, the mass media usually function much in the manner of state propaganda agencies."<ref>Herman, Edward, and Noam Chomsky. 1979. ''[[The Political Economy of Human Rights]], Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism''. Cambridge: South End Press.</ref>