Herman and Chomsky’s model has been challenged by many scholars. Romano criticized that the weakness of the model in Chomskian linguistics theories that allegedly view everything as rooted in deep structure (Romano, 1989). Herman responded that it is Romano was unaware that the rooting of corporate behaviour and the performance in structure is the core of modern industrial organization analysis (Herman, 2000: p. 105). Also, Romano did follow up with the admonition that Herman and Chomsky had failed to ask reporters why they did what they did and he implied without offering any evidence, that the journalistic bias Herman and Chomsky criticized might have been revealed as for good cause if they had only asked for an explanation. However, Herman
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The first Indochina war started in late 1940s, as France wanted to re-colonize Vietnam. French was supported by the US 80 percent of the cost of the war. In 1954, the French withdrew and the war had ended but, Vietnam divided into South and North Vietnam according to the Geneva agreement. In early 1965, US, took Gulf of Tonkin incident – later it was leaked through pentagon paper that it was manipulated by US – as opportunity, and invade outright by bombing the North Vietnam and this leaded to another war between US and Vietnam. However, this war has reversed and ended with US’s lost. Chomsky and Herman described the media in the Indochina war “as the US invasion mounted in scale and intensity, Indochina was flooded with war correspondents, many of whom reported what they saw and hear with honesty and courage,however, with rare exceptions they gave an account of the war as perceived by the US military on the ground or as offered in press briefings (Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 193). The US mass media took this war as it was occurred for good intention because the US is protecting the South Vietnam from other invaders. Chomsky and Herman explained that the focus of coverage was the Americans like soldiers bravely defending Vietnam, medic caring for the wounded, pacification officials rebuilding after the damage for which Communist terror bore responsibility (Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 203). They never focused on …show more content…
In 1981 May 13, Mehmet Ali Agca who is Turkish rightist and assassin long associated with the Gray Wolves, an affiliate of the extreme right-wing Nationalist Action Party, shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square(Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 144). After seventeen months in an Italian prison, Agca claimed that he was hired by Bulgarians and KGB to shoot the pope. If this was true, it would work beneficially on the Reagan Administration of the US who considers Soviet Union as an “empire of evil”, and the ruling party in Italy that were balancing out the Italian Communist Party. However, it is very suspicious that Agca confessed after he secretly contacted people like the Italian information agency or deputy of the pope. Despite that, the US mass media accepted the Agca’s confession, ignored the fact that the motive of the Soviet and Bulgarian was uncertain and even when they did have motive, there is no reason for the Soviet to do such a reckless, nor is there any tangible proof. The Italian court did not accept Agca’s confession as a fact. Nevertheless, the US mass media commented that this is due to the Italian’s strange judgment system. The mass media believed blindly the Sterling-Henze-Kalb model that is based on ideological assumptions. This SHK model rested its case on the Soviet motive, Agca’s stay in Sofia and the high professionalism of the Soviet and
The first Indochina war started in late 1940s, as France wanted to re-colonize Vietnam. French was supported by the US 80 percent of the cost of the war. In 1954, the French withdrew and the war had ended but, Vietnam divided into South and North Vietnam according to the Geneva agreement. In early 1965, US, took Gulf of Tonkin incident – later it was leaked through pentagon paper that it was manipulated by US – as opportunity, and invade outright by bombing the North Vietnam and this leaded to another war between US and Vietnam. However, this war has reversed and ended with US’s lost. Chomsky and Herman described the media in the Indochina war “as the US invasion mounted in scale and intensity, Indochina was flooded with war correspondents, many of whom reported what they saw and hear with honesty and courage,however, with rare exceptions they gave an account of the war as perceived by the US military on the ground or as offered in press briefings (Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 193). The US mass media took this war as it was occurred for good intention because the US is protecting the South Vietnam from other invaders. Chomsky and Herman explained that the focus of coverage was the Americans like soldiers bravely defending Vietnam, medic caring for the wounded, pacification officials rebuilding after the damage for which Communist terror bore responsibility (Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 203). They never focused on …show more content…
In 1981 May 13, Mehmet Ali Agca who is Turkish rightist and assassin long associated with the Gray Wolves, an affiliate of the extreme right-wing Nationalist Action Party, shot Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square(Chomsky and Herman, 2002: p. 144). After seventeen months in an Italian prison, Agca claimed that he was hired by Bulgarians and KGB to shoot the pope. If this was true, it would work beneficially on the Reagan Administration of the US who considers Soviet Union as an “empire of evil”, and the ruling party in Italy that were balancing out the Italian Communist Party. However, it is very suspicious that Agca confessed after he secretly contacted people like the Italian information agency or deputy of the pope. Despite that, the US mass media accepted the Agca’s confession, ignored the fact that the motive of the Soviet and Bulgarian was uncertain and even when they did have motive, there is no reason for the Soviet to do such a reckless, nor is there any tangible proof. The Italian court did not accept Agca’s confession as a fact. Nevertheless, the US mass media commented that this is due to the Italian’s strange judgment system. The mass media believed blindly the Sterling-Henze-Kalb model that is based on ideological assumptions. This SHK model rested its case on the Soviet motive, Agca’s stay in Sofia and the high professionalism of the Soviet and