Meeting #3: Ready, Set, Go
Hello hello!
Thanks for signing up for this reading experiment. It’s great to have you here. Here are some updates about how to prepare for our third book club meeting 🎉
What we’re reading📚
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
In this pathbreaking work, the authors show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, the state, and the global order.
When we’re meeting🤳🏽
We’ll be meeting at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4 to discuss Manufacturing Consent. I’ll send out a Zoom calendar event in a few weeks, so stay tuned.
To watch the recording of our August Q&A with Lewis Raven Wallace, author of The View From Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity, click here.
Get in touch✍🏽
You can reach me at elliepses@gmail.com or on Twitter @elliepses (DMs are open). Questions, comments, concerns, reading recommendations—I’ll take it all!
And, as always, the full History of Journalism reading List is available here.