Parenti,M. Inventing Reality. 1993
Parenti, Michael. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media.
2nd edition. New York: St.Martin's Press, 1993. 274 pages.
Michael Parenti earned a Ph.D. from Yale in 1962, and now lives in
Berkeley, California. He has written a number of dissident books on U.S.
culture and politics. Since the American left disappeared, Parenti is
perhaps the only remaining scholar who a) takes the idea of interlocking
power elites seriously, b) believes that conspiracies can happen in high
places, c) hasn't burned all of his Marx, Engels, and Gramsci, d) writes
lucidly, with numerous concrete examples and footnotes, and e) can still
get published without using the Internet.
This book is about the U.S. media, who controls the news, and how and
why they do it. If you've been deeply tuned into American culture and world
events since the 1960s, and are well-informed about media elites and their
spin cycles, corporate power and propaganda, and the role of the CIA and
other government agencies, then you don't need this book. If not, then it
will introduce a phenomenon that continues to emerge as one of the most
significant political forces of our era. (Of the 274 pages, only three or
four seem ill-advised -- a section on class, race, and gender in the first
chapter. These pages read like an obligatory sop to political correctness,
and they lack any sense of how of how race and gender can be used by elites
and the media to deflect and obscure class consciousness.)
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