Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
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Author: Edward S. Herman, Noam ChomskyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-15
ISBN: 0375714499
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Pantheon
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- ISBN13: 9780375714498
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Book Review: A shallow and illiberal piece of conspiracy-mongering
Summary: 1 Stars
Noam Chomsky is one of the great intellectual figures of our age - but in the field of linguistics, not political science. His political writings amount to a single notion, which is really no more than a standard conspiracy theory dressed up in pretentious sociolgical jargon. That conspiracy, according to Chomsky and Herman, consists in the "manufacture" of public opinion by the agents of shadowy capitalist interests.The sheer fatuousness of this notion - as if there were some identifiable and consistently held "interest" of a homogeneous elite - is exceeded only by the contempt that Chomsky and Herman here show for public opinion. The proposition that the people are so weak-minded that they are unable to choose the good for themselves without the enlightened judgement of the revolutionary to help them is the time-worn rationale of totalitarians throughout history. Chomsky's own record of agitation on behalf of totalitarian causes (his description of the anti-semitic "Holocaust denier" Robert Faurisson as "a sort of relatively apolitical liberal", and his comparison of the genocidal activities of the Cambodian Khmer Rouge to post-Liberation France) give evidence of the peculiarly tawdry political stance underlying this manifesto attacking liberty.
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