Noam Chomsky on Manufacturing Consent (Part 2)

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media is a book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, first published in 1988.

The propaganda model describes five editorially-distorting filters applied to news reportage in mass media:

1. Size, Ownership, and Profit Orientation: the business connections among the owning corporations, the identity of the controlling investors, and the personal, political, and financial affiliations of external directors.

2. The Advertising License to Do Business: the advertising-income-based news media must cater to the political prejudices and economic desires of advertisers.

3. Sourcing Mass Media News: reporters consider governmental sources as more factually reliable than private sources. In effect, the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access, by their contribution to reducing the medias costs of acquiring . . . and producing, news.

4. Flak and the Enforcers: powerful, private influence groups (e.g. conservative think tanks) organize systematic replies to reporters deviating from the official corporate interpretation of facts and events.

5. Anti-Communism: since the RussoAmerican Cold Wars (194591) ending, anticommunism was transubstantiated into the contemporary War on Terror, as the current national religion and social control mechanism. See Media Control, the Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda.

In 1992, the documentary film Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992), directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, partly based upon the book, presents the propaganda model and its arguments, and a biography of Chomsky.

The 1997 pop culture movie Good Will Hunting (1997), features a university professor asking the eponymous protagonists opinion if A People's History of the United States (1980), by Howard Zinn, is better than Manufacturing Consent.

In 2006, the Turkish government prosecuted Fatih Tas, owner of the Aram editorial house, two editors and the translator of the revised (2001) edition of Manufacturing Consent for "stirring hatred among the public" (per Article 216 of the Turkish Penal Code) and for "denigrating the national identity" of Turkey (per Article 301), because that editions introduction addresses the Turkish news medias reportage of governmental suppression of the Kurdish populace in the 1990s; they were acquitted.

In 2007, at the 20 Years of Propaganda?: Critical Discussions & Evidence on the Ongoing Relevance of the Herman & Chomsky Propaganda Model (15-17 May 2007) conference at the University of Windsor, Canada, Herman and Chomsky summarized developments to the propaganda model, followed by the publication of the proceedings of a commemoration of the twentieth publication anniversary of Manufacturing Consent in 2008.

In 2008, Prof. Chomsky replied to how internet blogs and self-generated news reportage conform to the propaganda model.

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[rollieskreetie]

I like the way Noam talks; he seems to know what's going on, seems very intelligent. After listening to a bunch of morons at work all day I have to hear Noam talk so I get some sanity to listen to at least once a day. Chomsky's great!

[doctergonads]

at one point in time religion politics. at another point in time politics took the place of religion as a control mechanism....today money makes the world go round...tommorrow money will be irrellevent as it will have little resources to back it up, so we will wage war over resources. eventually we will need to either colonize another world or rebuild the one that we have destroyed....we need to rebuild our name as mankind. as of now we are a parasite to the cosmos. we should rebuild our image

[vriend1]

@rollieskreetie I feel the exact same way and I live in Amsterdam.

[jjgfun]

@Marly61 hmmmm, interesting!

[degas5000]

Where the fuck is Edward Herman???

Just kidding bitches

[Marly61]

Regarding my post below I forgot to say, read the posts of the military personnel posting about world events.

[Marly61]

If anyone wants to see how terribly manipulated some americans can be please visit the You Tube video

"Incredible! New George S Patton speech: Iraq & modern world"

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