Edward Herman, 92, Critic Of U.s. Media And Foreign Policy, Dies

SAM ROBERTS, New York Times: Obituaries
Tue, 11/21/2017 - 2:47pm

An economist, he described a “propaganda model” of newspaper and TV network complicity with a government whose foreign policy was hypocritical.

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