The problem is not just that the book is over thirty years old and there is not a single Portuguese translation available. This case is not unique, but it is harder to understand that even in such an intellectually dynamic country as Brazil, the book is not for sale in some niche publisher or university press. As I was saying, the problem is that this thesis, published by the economist Edward S. Herman and the linguist Noam Chomsky in 1988, that the media depends on a political economy that strives to manufacture consent, is the last great critical contribution to a topic where criticism runs rampant.