![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this respect, the book left me with more questions and doubts about his claims than answers to my historical interests.Ĭhomsky writes about manufactured consent, a method for creating scenarios that the masses could all agree to support – propaganda – in order for the democratically-elected governing body of intellectuals to achieve its goals. It went further into how journalists should have covered the events leading to the Gulf War if they were not bought and owned by the government. Beyond the theoretical aspect of propaganda early in the book, which is where my interests are, it morphed into criticisms of the United States government making hypocritical cases for war and holding ownership over all of the media outlets. This book covered several interesting theories on the use of propaganda in democratic societies to control the “bewildered herd” – Chomsky’s term for describing the uneducated and uninformed public. The history of propaganda leading to its modern day usage fascinates me, especially in how it ties in with the early days of the Public Relations discipline. ![]() I really did not know what I was stepping into when I decided to read Noam Chomsky’s Media Control. ![]()
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