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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
In 1988, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman published "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media". The book continues to be one of the leading critical publications on the influence on mass media.
In this great animation video, Democracy Now's Amy Goodman summarizes Chomsky's and Herman's theses — and makes clear that our consent is still manufactured.