[stcredzero]

I haven't read Manufacturing Consent, but I did try to read Hegemony or Survival.

Big mistake. Note the difference in publishing dates. References in Manufacturing Consent are backed up by things like "column inches per unit time in the New York Times." Also note that he is not the only author of _Manufacturing Consent_.

You remind me of an old USENET poster who used the logic: "I didn't read X by author, but I read Y, and it sucked, therefore X must suck."

Sorry, but that only has a passing resemblance to real logic.

[drunkpotato]

Only because you're using propositional logic, which also only has a passing resemblance to "real logic". Good job there.

The likelihood that a book sucks is higher given that another book by that author has sucked.