Media Control
Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracyâone in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky âpropaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,â and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson's Creel Commission âsuceeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population,â 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.
Auteur | | Noam Chomsky |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | E-book |
Categorie | | Mens & Maatschappij |