Posted on 07/20/2021 6:33:09 AM PDT by karpov
—”Operation Mockingbird “
Exactly why conservatives should read “MANUFACTURING CONSENT”
Free PDF, Prof Chomsky does not collect a cent.
https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/herman-chomsky-2002-manufacturingconsent.pdf
Yes, the book’s covers are kind of far apart...
Just skim the preface and select one of the four case studies. Try one that you are familiar with.
NO! You will not become a commie by reading it.
You will become a stronger conservative.
“But the last word goes to Noam Chomsky. A Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky has extensively investigated the role of today’s media. His analysis is un-nerving. The democratic postulate, Chomsky says, “is that the media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth…” Despite this axiom, Chomsky finds that the media supports “established power” and is “responsive to the needs of government and major power groups.” He additionally argues that the media is a mechanism for pervasive “thought control” of elite interests and that ordinary citizens need to “undertake a course of intellectual self-defence to protect themselves from manipulation and control…” The covert role of the media has now apparently shifted its focus. One time expediter of the “cold war,” it now clamours for the extension of “corporate power.”
For JFK to make the statement in the early 1960's referred to in the prior reply, Mockingbird must of started and gained steam well before that. Mid 1950's is the most-accepted timeframe I've seen around.
Thanks for the suggestion and link.
400 page pdf saved for “offline” reading.
Not worried turning into a communist by reading anything these days. We’ve been fed so many lies, it’s breathtaking. I’m against statism... that goes for communists as well as the DNC and *most* of the RNC at the federal level.
—”I’m against statism... that goes for communists as well as the DNC and *most* of the RNC at the federal level.”
Well said.
The book can be a bit dense, he is making a case, not telling a story.
I have a preference for paper, very simple to highlight while reading in bed. Very inexpensive as a used book, the shipping cost more than the book! About $6 total.
the LEFT does not care if the country is a pile of rubble as long as they are in control...
of the money.
Control the money, control the world.
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