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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 [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor|East Timor]], have been largely ignored for the same reason. The book was commended on the cover by the Australian journalist [[John Pilger]], who wrote: "In this brilliant exposé of great power's lethal industry of lies, [the authors] defend the right of us all to a truthful historical memory."<ref name="Monbiot"> George Monbiot [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/13/left-and-libertarian-right "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 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/not-genocide-deniers-uncover-truth "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 [http://www.zcommunications.org/reply-to-george-monbiot-on-genocide-belittling-by-edward-herman "Reply to George Monbiot on 'Genocide Belittling'"], Znet, 19 July 2011 and Peterson's [http://www.zcommunications.org/george-monbiot-and-the-anti-genocide-deniers-brigade-by-david-peterson "George Monbiot and the Anti-'Genocide Deniers' Brigade"], Znet, 19 July 2011</ref> The academic [[Martin Shaw (sociologist)|Martin Shaw]] has written: "For scholars of genocide studies, this book is rich source-material. It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of 'truthful historical memory'".<ref>Martin Shaw [http://www.opendemocracy.net/martin-shaw/politics-of-genocide-rwanda-and-dr-congo "The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo"], OpenDemocracy, 16 September 2010</ref>
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 [[Indonesian occupation of East Timor|East Timor]], have been largely ignored for the same reason. The book was commended on the cover by the Australian journalist [[John Pilger]], who wrote: "In this brilliant exposé of great power's lethal industry of lies, [the authors] defend the right of us all to a truthful historical memory."<ref name="Monbiot"> George Monbiot [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/13/left-and-libertarian-right "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 [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/19/not-genocide-deniers-uncover-truth "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 [http://www.zcommunications.org/reply-to-george-monbiot-on-genocide-belittling-by-edward-herman "Reply to George Monbiot on 'Genocide Belittling'"], Znet, 19 July 2011 and Peterson's [http://www.zcommunications.org/george-monbiot-and-the-anti-genocide-deniers-brigade-by-david-peterson "George Monbiot and the Anti-'Genocide Deniers' Brigade"], Znet, 19 July 2011</ref> The academic [[Martin Shaw (sociologist)|Martin Shaw]] has written: "For scholars of genocide studies, this book is rich source-material. It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of 'truthful historical memory'".<ref>Martin Shaw [http://www.opendemocracy.net/martin-shaw/politics-of-genocide-rwanda-and-dr-congo "The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo"], OpenDemocracy, 16 September 2010</ref>


Herman's position on the Srebrenica massacre has been criticized, in addition to Shaw and Marko Attila Hoare,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hoare |first1=Marko Attila |year=2003 |title=Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia: A Critique of Left Revisionism's Denial |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=543–563 |url=http://www.glypx.com/BalkanWitness/hoare.htm}}</ref> by [[John Feffer]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fpif.org/articles/why_yugoslavia_still_matters |title=Why Yugoslavia Still Matters |first=John |last=Feffer |date=6 April 2009 |publisher=Foreign Policy In Focus |accessdate=22 July 2010}}</ref> and [[George Monbiot]].<ref name="Monbiot"/> Herman and Peterson's position on the Rwandan genocide was found "deplorable" by James Wizeye, first secretary at the Rwandan High Commission in London.<ref>James Wizeye [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/25/tutsi-rwanda-genocide-hutu "To claim Tutsis caused Rwanda's genocide is pure revisionism",] ''The Guardian'', 25 July 2011</ref> Herman's position, though, has been defended by the editors of [[Media Lens]], the British media analysis website.<ref>Edwards and Cromwell [http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=637:a-malign-intellectual-subculture-george-monbiot-smears-chomsky-herman-peterson-pilger-and-media-lens&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68 "A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens"], Media Lens, 2 August 2011</ref>
Herman's position on the Srebrenica massacre has been criticized, in addition to Shaw and Marko Attila Hoare,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hoare |first1=Marko Attila |year=2003 |title=Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia: A Critique of Left Revisionism's Denial |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=543–563 |url=http://www.glypx.com/BalkanWitness/hoare.htm}}</ref> by [[John Feffer]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fpif.org/articles/why_yugoslavia_still_matters |title=Why Yugoslavia Still Matters |first=John |last=Feffer |date=6 April 2009 |publisher=Foreign Policy In Focus |accessdate=22 July 2010}}</ref> [[George Monbiot]].<ref name="Monbiot"/> and [[Oliver Kamm]].<ref>Oliver Kamm [http://timesopinion.tumblr.com/post/42443974119/srebrenica-denial-just-will-not-die "Srebrenica denial just will not die",] ''The Times'' (blog), 6 February 2013</ref> Herman and Peterson's position on the Rwandan genocide was found "deplorable" by James Wizeye, first secretary at the Rwandan High Commission in London.<ref>James Wizeye [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/25/tutsi-rwanda-genocide-hutu "To claim Tutsis caused Rwanda's genocide is pure revisionism",] ''The Guardian'', 25 July 2011</ref> Herman's position, though, has been defended by the editors of [[Media Lens]], the British media analysis website.<ref>Edwards and Cromwell [http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=637:a-malign-intellectual-subculture-george-monbiot-smears-chomsky-herman-peterson-pilger-and-media-lens&catid=24:alerts-2011&Itemid=68 "A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens"], Media Lens, 2 August 2011</ref>


==Books==
==Books==

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For other people named Edward Herman (disambiguation), see Edward Herman (disambiguation) (disambiguation).
Edward S. Herman
Born (1925-04-07) April 7, 1925 (age 99)

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.

Herman and Chomsky

Herman received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1945 and PhD in 1953 from the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1968, Herman and Noam Chomsky signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[1] The two men later collaborated on works about Cambodia. Beginning with "Distortions at Fourth Hand", an article published in the American left-wing periodical The Nation in June 1977, they wrote about the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot and disputed the reports and accounts of atrocities from refugees.[2] Their book After the Cataclysm (1979), which appeared after the regime had been deposed, has been described by Sophal Ear - now an Assistant Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School - as "one of the most supportive books of the Khmer revolution"[3] in which they "perform what amounts to a defense of the Khmer Rouge cloaked in an attack on the media".[3] Herman defended himself in 2001: "Chomsky and I found that the very asking of questions about the numerous fabrications, ideological role, and absence of any beneficial effects for the victims in the anti-Khmer Rouge propaganda campaign of 1975-1979 was unacceptable, and was treated almost without exception as 'apologetics for Pol Pot'."[4]

Their best known co-authored book though is Manufacturing Consent, first published in 1988, and largely written by Herman. The book introduced the concept of the "propaganda model" to the debates on the workings of the mainstream corporate media.

Srebrenica and other atrocities

Herman has written about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in articles such as "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre",[5] Herman writes: "the evidence for a massacre, certainly of one in which 8,000 men and boys were executed, has always been problematic, to say the least" and "the 'Srebrenica massacre' is the greatest triumph of propaganda to emerge from the Balkan wars... the link of this propaganda triumph to truth and justice is non-existent".[5] He criticized the validity of the term genocide in the case of Srebrenica, pointing out inconsistencies for the case of organized extermination such as the Bosnian Serb Army bussing of Muslim woman and children out of Srebrenica.[6][7][8] Herman has established the Srebrenica Research Group, in the words of historian Marko Attila Hoare, "to propagate the view that the Srebrenica massacre never happened".[9]

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. The book was commended on the cover by the Australian journalist John Pilger, who wrote: "In this brilliant exposé of great power's lethal industry of lies, [the authors] defend the right of us all to a truthful historical memory."[10] The academic Martin Shaw has written: "For scholars of genocide studies, this book is rich source-material. It is not a serious contribution to analysis in the interest of 'truthful historical memory'".[11]

Herman's position on the Srebrenica massacre has been criticized, in addition to Shaw and Marko Attila Hoare,[12] by John Feffer,[13] George Monbiot.[10] and Oliver Kamm.[14] Herman and Peterson's position on the Rwandan genocide was found "deplorable" by James Wizeye, first secretary at the Rwandan High Commission in London.[15] Herman's position, though, has been defended by the editors of Media Lens, the British media analysis website.[16]

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 978-0-679-72559-6
  • 1992: Beyond hypocrisy : decoding the news in an age of propaganda : including A doublespeak dictionary for the 1990s ISBN 0-89608-436-1
  • 1995: Triumph of the Market
  • 1997: The Global Media (with Robert McChesney) ISBN 0-304-33433-2
  • 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

Notes

  1. ^ "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, 1968 New York Post
  2. ^ Bruce Sharp "Averaging Wrong Answers: Noam Chomsky and the Cambodia Controversy", Mekong.com, 19 July 2010
  3. ^ a b Sophal Ear "The Kymer Rouge Canon 1975-1979: The Standard Total Academic View on Cambodia", Undergraduate Political Science Honor Thesis, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, May 1995, p.42, 63
  4. ^ Edward S. Herman "Propaganda System Number One: From Diem and Arbenz to Milosevic", Z magazine (Z communications website), September 2001
  5. ^ a b Edward Herman "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre", Znet, 7 July 2005
  6. ^ "Genocide Inflation is the Real Human Rights Threat: Yugoslavia and Rwanda". ZNet online ZMagazine. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
  7. ^ "The Politics of the Srebrenica Massacre". ZNet online ZMagazine. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  8. ^ "Genocide Inflation is the Real Human Rights Threat: Yugoslavia and Rwanda". ZNet online ZMagazine. Retrieved 2009-10-22.
  9. ^ Marko Attila Hoare "Chomsky's Genocidal Denial", FrontPage magazine, 23 November 2005
  10. ^ a b 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
  11. ^ Martin Shaw "The politics of genocide: Rwanda & DR Congo", OpenDemocracy, 16 September 2010
  12. ^ Hoare, Marko Attila (2003). "Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia: A Critique of Left Revisionism's Denial". Journal of Genocide Research. 5 (4): 543–563.
  13. ^ Feffer, John (6 April 2009). "Why Yugoslavia Still Matters". Foreign Policy In Focus. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
  14. ^ Oliver Kamm "Srebrenica denial just will not die", The Times (blog), 6 February 2013
  15. ^ James Wizeye "To claim Tutsis caused Rwanda's genocide is pure revisionism", The Guardian, 25 July 2011
  16. ^ Edwards and Cromwell "A 'Malign Intellectual Subculture' - George Monbiot Smears Chomsky, Herman, Peterson, Pilger And Media Lens", Media Lens, 2 August 2011

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