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‘Flak’ or Political Discipline as a Strategy in Consensus Building

In 2006, during the electoral process that led Felipe Calderón to hold the presidency – in a highly questioned succession–, we identified a communication phenomenon that positioned former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as “a danger to Mexico.” Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman identified this phenomenon as flak, in their Propaganda Model (MdP) [...] The ‘Flak’ position or political discipline as a strategy in consensus building first appeare…
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In 2006, during the electoral process that led Felipe Calderón to hold the presidency – in a highly questioned succession–, we identified a communication phenomenon that positioned former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador as “a danger to Mexico.” Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman identified this phenomenon as flak, in their Propaganda Model (MdP) [...] The ‘Flak’ position or political discipline as a strategy in consensus building first appeare…

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