Obama, Objective Journalism, and Manufacturing Consent

Never forget that people the mass media won’t tell you about have been deemed by the power elite to be unworthy of our concern. To focus on the vast amount of suffering in the world, much of which has been the direct result of U.S. foreign policy, would be an inconvenience to the power elite who profit from many of these activities. A recent opinion piece by John Christiansen, Jr. in Medium, analyzes Obama’s rationalization of military intervention and concludes that he was no better than his predecessors. He also cites a book I have long regarded as the bible of state propaganda, Manufacturing Consent by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky.