Media critic Edward S. Herman dies at 92 Jeff Cohen, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting founder, via Facebook



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SAD NEWS: One of the greatest and sweetest media critics ever, ED HERMAN, has passed away.



Ed was the main author of Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, written with NOAM CHOMSKY -- the 1980s master work that exposed how elite U.S. media typically function as propaganda organs for U.S. empire and militarism.



In 1984, when I was part of a lawyers delegation monitoring an election in death squad-run El Salvador, I remember a gaggle of progressive attorneys at the Salvador Sheraton tussling with each other to get their hands on a shipment of hot-off-the-press copies of Demonstration Elections, Eds devastating book (with Frank Brodhead) on the U.S. staging of elections as PR shows to prop up repressive puppet regimes from Dominican Republic to Vietnam to Salvador.



A highpoint of my life was flying with Ed across the Atlantic to Brussels to speak alongside him before the European Parliament on the problem of media conglomeration, a hearing organized by the European Greens.



As happened too often, Eds name went unmentioned in the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting; when Will (Matt Damon) says to his therapist (Robin Williams) that Zinns Peoples History is a book that will fuckin knock you on your ass, the therapist responds: Better than Chomskys Manufacturing Consent?



I asked Ed if he felt left out. Not at all -- the movie will bring our book more attention, more readers. Pure Ed.



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