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 …
.@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/ …