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T CDSMS H E P R O P A EDITED BY G A JOAN PEDRO-CARAÑANA, N D DANIEL BROUDY & JEFFERY KLAEHN A M O D THE PROPAGANDA E L T O MODEL TODAY D A Y Filtering Perception and Awareness P E D R O - C A R A Ñ A N A , B R O U D Y & K L A E H N ( E D S ) The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness Edited by Joan Pedro-Carañana, Daniel Broudy & Jeffery Klaehn University of Westminster Press www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Published by University of Westminster Press 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6UW www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk Text © the editors and several contributors 2018 First published 2018 Series cover concept: Mina Bach (minabach.co.uk) Printed in the UK by Lightning Source Ltd. Print and digital versions typeset by Siliconchips Services Ltd. ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-912656-16-5 ISBN (PDF): 978-1-912656-17-2 ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-912656-18-9 ISBN (Kindle): 978-1-912656-19-6 DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book27 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommer cial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Com- mons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA. This license allows for copying and distributing the work, providi ng author attribution is clearly stated, that you are not using the material for commercial purposes, and that modified versions are not distributed. The full text of this book has been peer-reviewed to ensure high academic standards. For full review policies, see: http://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/ site/publish/ Suggested citation: Pedro-Carañana, J., Broudy, D. and Klaehn, J. (eds.). 2018. The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness. London: University of Westminster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book27. License: CC‐BY‐NC‐ND 4.0 To read the free, open access version of this book online, visit https://doi.org/10.16997/book27 or scan this QR code with your mobile device: Dedication The editors dedicate this collection to the memory of Edward S. Herman (7 April 1925 – 11 November 2017), the principal architect of the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model. Competing interests The editors and contributors declare that they have no competing interests in publishing this book. Contents 1. Introduction 1 Joan Pedro-Carañana, Daniel Broudy and Jeffery Klaehn Part I: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations 19 2. Interview with Edward S. Herman: Ideological Hegemony in Contemporary Societies 21 Jeffery Klaehn, Joan Pedro-Carañana, Matthew Alford and Yigal Godler 3. What the Propaganda Model Can Learn from the Sociology of Journalism 25 Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman 4. Journalism Studies’ Systematic Pursuit of Irrelevance: How Research Emphases Sabotage Critiques of Corporate-Run News Media 37 Yigal Godler 5. Does the Propaganda Model Actually Theorise Propaganda? 53 Piers Robinson Part II: The Internet and New Digital Media 69 6. Propaganda 2.0: Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model in the Age of the Internet, Big Data and Social Media 71 Christian Fuchs 7. System Security: A Missing Filter for the Propaganda Model? 93 Daniel Broudy and Miyume Tanji 8. From #15M to Podemos: Updating the Propaganda Model for Explaining Political Change in Spain and the Role of Digital Media 107 Miguel Álvarez-Peralta 9. Anti-Communism and the Mainstream Online Press in Spain: Criticism of Podemos as a Strategy of a Two-Party System in Crisis 125 Aurora Labio-Bernal viii Contents Part III: Screen Entertainment and Broadcast Media 143 10. A Screen Entertainment Propaganda Model 145 Matthew Alford 11. American Television: Manufacturing Consumerism 159 Tabe Bergman 12. The Sport of Shafting Fans and Taxpayers: An Application of the Propaganda Model to the Coverage of Professional Athletes and Team Owners 173 Barry Pollick Part IV: C ase Studies on Media and Power: The Interplay Between National and Global Elites 191 13. The 2008 Financial Crisis, the Great Recession and Austerity in Britain: Analysing Media Coverage Using the Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model 193 Andrew Mullen 14. Corporate-Market Power and Ideological Domination: The Propaganda Model after 30 Years – Relevance and Further Application 223 Florian Zollmann 15. Imperialism and Hegemonic Information in Latin America: The Media Coup in Venezuela vs. the Criminalisation of Protest in Mexico 237 Francisco Sierra Caballero 16. ‘Dynamic’ Obama Lectures ‘Bumbling’ Castro on Race Relations in Cuba, While Wilfully Blind to Black Lives Matter Movement in the US 249 James Winter 17. Thinking the Unthinkable about the Unthinkable – The Use of Nuclear Weapons and the Propaganda Model 263 Milan Rai 18. Conclusion 279 Joan Pedro-Carañana, Daniel Broudy and Jeffery Klaehn Index 293 CHAPTER 1 Introduction Joan Pedro-Carañana, Daniel Broudy and Jeffery Klaehn If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. –Malcolm X The propaganda system allows the U.S. leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehaviour or criminality. –Edward S. Herman The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. –Noam Chomsky Often, ‘freedom of expression’ is mistaken with ‘freedom of pressur- ing’… It is no longer necessary for the ends to justify the means since How to cite this book chapter: Pedro-Carañana, J., Broudy, D. and Klaehn, J. 2018. Introduction. In: Pedro- Carañana, J., Broudy, D. and Klaehn, J. (eds.). The Propaganda Model Today: Filtering Perception and Awareness. Pp. 1–18. London: University of West- minster Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/book27.a. License: CC‐BY‐ NC‐ND 4.0