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 …
.@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 …