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The raw material of news...

Submitted by Ken Watts on Fri, 12/10/2010 - 15:56

The raw material of news must pass through successive filters, leaving only the cleansed residue fit to print. They fix the premises of discourse and interpretation, and the definition of what is newsworthy in the first place, and they explain the basis and operations of what amount to propaganda campaigns.

Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky