Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky on the Media

“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

“Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.”

This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents (often called the most quoted man alive). It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States people. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.

Created in 1992, it may look a little dated but it’s ideas are more relevant than ever.