Monday, August 14, 2006

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media



Almost 3 hour long documentary based on a book that Noam co-authored.
Explains how the media is working to control peoples opinion or to keep them from having one (apathy, isolation).
There are many good scenes of Chomsky answering questions which are critical of this theories.
The documentary is edited a bit in the same way as The Corporation with lots of cutting, but it generally keeps to the subject and has less "fill in" vintage scenes.
Manufacturing Consent was produced in 1992, but i believe most of the content in it is still relevant and interesting. There has been a huge change in independant news and information with the rise of the internet (internet is not mentioned in the documentary).

Also features information on the crisis of East Timor in 1975, a little known example of "evilness" Noam often uses. Historical info on East Timor at Wikipedia

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Not available on google video but you can download it from archive.org (736 mb avi file)

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