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Beyond Hypocrisy
Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda
Edward S. Herman; Matt Wuerker (Cartoons)
Pages: 238ISBN: 0-89608-435-3
Format: paper
Release Date: 1992-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
Herman and Wuerker highlight the deception and hypocrisy contained in the US government's favorite buzzwords, offering examples of duplicitous terminology, trenchant essays, satirical cartoons, and a cross-referenced doublespeak dictionary.
“Herman devastatingly demonstrates how the government and the mass media manipulate words to make us accept the unacceptable and think the unthinkable. Half a dozen thoughtful essays, replete with specific examples, make the case, but the best part of the book—constituting 75 pages—is Herman’s ‘Doublespeak Dictionary for the 1990s.’”—The Progressive
Edward S. Herman
Click here to view Edward S. Herman's full Author PageEdward S. Herman is a Professor Emeritus of Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a contributor to Z Magazine since its founding in 1988. Herman is the author of numerous books, including a number of corporate and media studies. These include Corporate Control, Corporate Power (1981), the two-volume Political Economy of Human Rights (1979) and Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988, 2002), both of which he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, as well as The "Terrorism" Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror (1989), which he co-authored with Gerry O'Sullivan, and The Myth of the Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader (Peter Lang, 1999).