Edward S. Herman: Srebenica, the Media, and NATO
With the trial of Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic in the news, noted media and political economy analyst Edward S. Herman joins us to take on several inflated media myths, starting with the Srebenica massacre.
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Edward S. Herman is a professor emeritus of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a prolific author, and together with Noam Chomsky, he developed the "propaganda model," published in their book Manufacturing Consent, which explains why the mainstream media serve an elite propaganda function. In 2000, he and Phillip Hammond edited the book "Degraded Capability: The Media and the Kosovo Crisis, which focused on NATO's motivations in dismantling Yugoslavia, and how the media created spin to support NATO's illegal actions. His work is foundational among peace activists, and today, we are interviewing him about his landmark Monthly Review article, written together with David Pederson, called The Dismantling of Yugoslavia: A Study in Inhumanitarian Intervention (and a Western Liberal-Left Intellectual and Moral Collapse.) We are grateful to have this leading analyst in media and political economy on our program today."
You can find this article here:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/1007herman-peterson1.php
It is recommended reading for anyone trying to understand media reporting on the civil wars in Yugoslavia.
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