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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media)

by Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomskys backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilsons Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmanns theory of "spectator democracy," in which the public is seen as a "bewildered herd" that needs to be directed, not empowered; and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on "controlling the public mind," and not on informing it. Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.

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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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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.

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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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ISBN:
9781583225363
Author:
Chomsky, Noam
Publisher:
Seven Stories Press
Author:
Chomsky, Noam, Et
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.
Subject:
Politics - General
Copyright:
2003
Edition Number:
2
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series:
Open Media Series
Series Volume:
240
Publication Date:
20020931
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
64
Dimensions:
7 x 5 x 0.3 in 3.5 oz
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"Synopsis" by , 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.
"Synopsis" by ,

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" by , 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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