Writing in the 1980s, Edward J. Herman and Noam Chomsky proposed their Propaganda Model of the US (and other western) corporate media in which news production is conditioned by five constraint factors: the size, ownership, and profit orientation of the mass media; advertising as an unofficial license to do business; sourcing patterns within the regime of professional routines; push-back or "flak" from ideological enforcers; and anti-communist ideology as a control. Goss (communication, Saint Louis U., Spain) revisits this model in light of contemporary realities, such as the rise of new media, the spread of neoliberal globalization, and the decline of communism (replacing the anti-communist filter in the model with a dichotomization filter). The analysis is carried out through a focus on exceptional cases of "against-the-grain" news, both at the micro-level of particular stories and, through a case study of London's The Guardian, at the macro level. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)