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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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    Chronic City

    Jonathan Lethem

Media Control the Spectacular 2ND Edition

by Noam Chomsky

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ISBN13: 9781583225363
ISBN10: 1583225366
Condition: Standard
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Chomsky's classic back-pocket primer on U.S. government propaganda and media bias, now available in an edition expanded to include his comments regarding media coverage of terrorism and U.S. foreign policy in a post-September 11 world.

Synopsis:

Examines American propaganda efforts and discusses how both major political parties use the falsification of history, suppression of information, and promotion of meaningless discourse to stifle questions about U.S. policy.

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This Open Media title includes the complete text of Chomsky?s January 2002 Town Hall meeting on media coverage of American foreign policy.
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Noam Chomsky is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Hegemony or Survival, 9/11, and Power and Terror.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781583225363
Subtitle:
The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Author:
Chomsky, Noam
Author:
Chomsky, Noam, Et
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Mass media
Subject:
Propaganda
Subject:
Mass media and public opinion.
Subject:
Mass media and propaganda
Subject:
CURRENT EVENTS / Mass Media
Subject:
Mass media -- Political aspects.
Edition Number:
2
Series:
Open Media Book
Series Volume:
240
Publication Date:
July 2003
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
103
Dimensions:
7.06x5.04x.32 in. .20 lbs.
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