Links: Propaganda, Media, Manufacturing Consent

• Robert Parry, Iran-Contra's 'Lost Chapter', ConsortiumNews.com, 30 June 2008.
  "As historians ponder George W. Bush’s disastrous presidency, they may wonder how Republicans perfected a propaganda system that could fool tens of millions of Americans, intimidate Democrats, and transform the vaunted Washington press corps from watchdogs to lapdogs."
  
  Includes link for a draft chapter omitted from an Iran-Contra report (Google Books link) detailing the Reagan administration's domestic propaganda efforts.


• Tanner Mirrlees, Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: Tanner Mirrlees interviews Robert McChesney, Cyrano's Journal Online, 07 August 2009.


• digby, Missing The Point, Big Time, Hullabaloo, 13 August 2009.
  
  Some observe that it is Chuck Todd's incompetence that qualifies him for his job; that quality makes for a compliant and submissive journalism.


• * batocchio, Silent Questions, Hullabaloo, 13 August 2009.


• Chris Hedges, Book Review: Chris Hedges on Alex S. Jones’ ‘Losing the News’, TruthDig, truthdig.com, 13 August 2009.


• * Glenn Greenwald, Fringe leftist losers: wrong even when they're right, Salon.com, 20 August 2009.
  
  Glenn Greenwald, Bush critics: still evil, crazy extremists, Salon.com, 23 August 2009.