Institutional Racism

Authorship
According to Chomsky, "most of the book" was Herman's work. Herman describes a
rough division of labor in preparing the book whereby he was responsible for the
preface and chapters 1-4 while Chomsky was responsible for chapters 5-7. According to
Herman, the propaganda model described in the book was originally his idea, tracing it
back to his 1981 book Corporate Control, Corporate Power. The main elements of the
propaganda model (though not so called at the time) were discussed briefly in volume 1
chapter 2 of Herman and Chomksy's 1979 book The Political Economy of Human
Rights, where they argued, "Especially where the issues involve substantial U.S.
economic and political interests and relationships with friendly or hostile states, the
mass media usually function much in the manner of state propaganda agencies."
Further Developments
In 1993, the documentary film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the
Media (1992), directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, partly based upon the
book, presents the propaganda model and its arguments, and a biography of Chomsky.
In 2006, the Turkish government prosecuted Fatih Tas, owner of the Aram editorial
house, two editors and the translator of the revised (2001) edition of Manufacturing
Consent for "stirring hatred among the public" (per Article 216 of the Turkish Penal
Code) and for "denigrating the national identity" of Turkey (per Article 301), because
that edition’s introduction addresses the Turkish news media’s reportage of
governmental suppression of the Kurdish populace in the 1990s; they were acquitted.
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