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Of scientific relativization and differentiation: Why Siegfried Weischenberg’s assessment of Noam Chomsky’s propaganda approach is wrong

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Florian ZollmannORCiD

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Abstract

Siegfried Weischenberg regards Noam Chomsky’s propaganda approach as exemplary of an Alternative Media Criticism (AMC). According to Weischenberg, the AMC is lacking in balance as well as scientific relativization and differentiation. As the following article will show, Weischenberg’s account of Chomsky’s propaganda approach is incorrect and inconsistent with the academic literature. Weischenberg uses this distorted image as the backdrop against which he delegitimizes critical media research. The accusation of a lack of relativization and differentiation can therefore also be levelled at Weischenberg’s criticism of Chomsky itself.

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Author(s): Zollmann F

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journalism Research

Year: 2022

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Pages: 73-81

Print publication date: 31/03/2022

Online publication date: 31/03/2022

Acceptance date: 07/03/2022

Date deposited: 17/05/2022

ISSN (electronic): 2569-152X

Publisher: Herbert Von Halem Verlag

URL: https://doi.org/10.1453/2569-152X-12022-12061-en

DOI: 10.1453/2569-152X-12022-12061-en

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