Edward S. Herman
Edward S. Herman (born April 7, 1925) is an American economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. He is Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Bachelor of Arts from University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and PhD in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley.
One of his best-known books is Manufacturing Consent, written with Noam Chomsky. In 1968, Herman and Chomsky signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[1] In The Politics of Genocide (co-authored with David Peterson, 2010), Herman argues that some genocides such as Kosovo and Rwanda in 1994 have been heavily publicized in the West to advance a specific economic agenda, eventually leading to a minority controlled government of pro-Western and pro-business Tutsi, while other genocides, such as in East Timor, have been largely ignored for the same reason.
Herman has published articles, such as "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre",[2] where he criticized the validity of the term genocide in the case of Srebrenica massacre, pointing out inconsistencies for the case of organized extermination such as the Bosnian Serb Army busing of Muslim woman and children out of Srebrenica.[3][4][5] This position was criticized by Marko Attila Hoare,[6] John Feffer.[7] and George Monbiot.[8] Herman and Peterson's position on the Rwandan genocide was found "deplorable" by James Wizeye, first secretary at the Rwandan High Commission in London.[9] Herman's position though has been defended by the editors of Media Lens, the British media analysis website.[10]
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[edit] Books
- 1968: Principles And Practices Of Money And Banking
- 1968: The Great Society Dictionary
- 1970: Atrocities in Vietnam
- 1973: Counter-Revolutionary Violence - Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda (with Noam Chomsky)
- 1979: The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume I: The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Noam Chomsky)
- 1979: The Political Economy of Human Rights, Volume II: After the Cataclysm: Postwar Indochina and the Reconstruction of Imperial Ideology (with Noam Chomsky)
- 1981: Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study
- 1982: The Real Terror Network
- 1984: Demonstration Elections (with Frank Brodhead)
- 1986: The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection (with Frank Brodhead). ISBN 0-940380-06-4.
- 1988: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (with Noam Chomsky)
- 1990: The "Terrorism" Industry ISBN 978-0679725596
- 1992: Beyond hypocrisy : decoding the news in an age of propaganda : including A doublespeak dictionary for the 1990s ISBN 0896084361
- 1995: Triumph of the Market
- 1997: The Global Media (with Robert McChesney) ISBN 0304334332
- 1999: The Myth of The Liberal Media: An Edward Herman Reader
- 2010: The Politics of Genocide (with David Peterson) ISBN 978-1-58367-212-9
[edit] Prominent articles and essays
- Godfatherly Global Justice: Milosevic, Sharon and Suharto — Znet — July 4, 2001
- Propaganda Model
- The Propaganda Model Revisited — Monthly Review — July 1996
- The Propaganda Model: A Retrospective — December 2003
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 New York Post
- ^ "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre"
- ^ "Genocide Inflation is the Real Human Rights Threat: Yugoslavia and Rwanda". ZNet online ZMagazine. http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15696. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
- ^ "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre". ZNet online ZMagazine. http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5892. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
- ^ "Genocide Inflation is the Real Human Rights Threat: Yugoslavia and Rwanda". ZNet online ZMagazine. http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/15696. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
- ^ Hoare, Marko Attila (2003). "Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia: A Critique of Left Revisionism's Denial". Journal of Genocide Research 5 (4): 543–563. http://www.glypx.com/BalkanWitness/hoare.htm.
- ^ Feffer, John (6 April 2009). "Why Yugoslavia Still Matters". Foreign Policy In Focus. http://www.fpif.org/articles/why_yugoslavia_still_matters. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ George Monbiot "Left and libertarian right cohabit in the weird world of the genocide belittlers", The Guardian, 13 June 2011. Herman and Peterson responded to Monbiot in "We're not genocide deniers. We just want to uncover the truth about Rwanda and Srebrenica", The Guardian, 19 July 2011. The original versions of their submitted texts are Herman's "Reply to George Monbiot on 'Genocide Belittling'", Znet, 19 July 2011 and Peterson's "George Monbiot and the Anti-'Genocide Deniers' Brigade", Znet, 19 July 2011
- ^ James Wizeye "To claim Tutsis caused Rwanda's genocide is pure revisionism", The Guardian, 25 July 2011
- ^ Edwards and Cromwell "A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens", Media Lens, 2 August 2011
[edit] References
- Anglo-American Name Authority File, s.v. "Herman, Edward S.", LC Control Number 79135236. Accessed 10 July 2008.
[edit] External links
- Edward Herman's Znet Homepage
- Edward Herman's Homepage on Third World Traveler
- A collection of Edward Herman's writings from various sources, including the author himself.
- Essays by Edward Herman on ColdType.net
- Archives at FAIR
- Archives at Swans.com
- Gerald Caplan's harsh review of 'The Politics of Genocide'
- More critiques of Herman's position on the former Yugoslavia
