Diana Johnstone: "Ed Herman could be considered the godfather of antiwar media critique, both because of his own contributions and because of the many writers he encouraged to pursue that work."https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/15/thank-you-ed-herman/ …
Good obit of the great dissident scholar Edward S. Herman who died 11 November 2017 in the @Independent, by Olivier Holmeyhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-s-herman-scholar-whose-radical-critiques-of-us-media-unpacked-the-fake-news-caricatured-by-a8067131.html …
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@mtaibbi: Edward Herman's "work has never been more relevant. 'Manufacturing Consent' ... described with great clarity how the system of private commercial media in America cooperates with state power to generate propaganda"http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/matt-taibbi-on-the-death-of-edward-herman-w511766 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jeffcot: "One of the greatest and sweetest media critics ever, Edward S. Herman...was the main author of Manufacturing Consent...—the 1980s masterwork that exposed how elite US media typically function as propaganda organs for US empire and militarism."http://fair.org/home/edward-s-herman-master-of-dissent-1925-2017/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@washingtonpost obit of Edward Herman: "an economist who collaborated with scholar and political activist Noam Chomsky on blistering critiques of U.S. foreign policy and the mass media"https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/edward-s-herman-media-critic-who-co-wrote-manufacturing-consent-dies-at-92/2017/11/16/7cab93ca-cade-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.43930d92f8b8 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@JNaureckas: "The@nytimes‘ obituary for pioneering media critic Edward Herman was not entirely unsympathetic ... But it does contain a rather glaring error—one that illustrates a frequent criticism that Ed made of media outlets like the New York Times."http://fair.org/home/nyts-obit-for-ed-herman-requires-a-correction/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The late Edward Herman's last article was a history lesson on why the notion of "fake news" being a new phenomenon is itself "fake news"https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/ …
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This excellent interview with Edward S. Herman by
@jsamditis, on February 2015, is a display of his moral clarity, critical thinking, and far-sightedness.https://youtu.be/-dQW1J5keUAShow this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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