Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent

Program Title: Noam Chomsky – Manufacturing Consent
Description: The media like to present themselves as objective, balanced and free from any bias or agenda. Reality suggests something quite different. The media function as weapons of mass distraction. Much of what passes as news is, sometimes subtle, sometimes crude, propaganda. The media are large conglomerates that serve to mobilize support for the special interests that dominate state and corporate power. In democratic societies, populations are not controlled by force. Rather, they are subject to more refined forms of ideological manipulation. Emotionally potent oversimplifications and necessary illusions are created and repeated endlessly. Embedded ideas, such as Washington’s right to intervene anywhere in the world, go unexamined and unchallenged. Consent is manufactured. The public, reduced to being spectators, is marginalized.

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Noam Chomsky, the legendary scholar/activist, has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for many decades. The New Statesman calls him “the conscience of the American people.” At 97 and though having health setbacks, he continues to inform and inspire people all over the world. He is the author of scores of books, including Surviving the 21st Century, The Myth of American Idealism and Manufacturing Consent.

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Topic: Politics Type: Speech/Presentation

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