[Media-watch] Engineering Consent

[Julie-ann Davies]

Sydney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/23/1079939624187.html

The New York Times' role in promoting war on IraqBy Antony Loewenstein
      March 23, 2004

      

This is the first 'Engineering consent' column by Antony Loewenstein, to focus on the inside workings of big media. 

"One of the most entrenched and disturbing features of American journalism [is] its pack mentality. Editors and journalists don't like to diverge too sharply from what everyone else is writing." Michael Massing, The New York Review of Books, February 26, 2004

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