Urn:lcp:mediacontrol00noam:epub:b09c55f2-22f2-4db1-a585-07ae0614a342 Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mediacontrol00noam Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4gm99n3j Isbn 1583225366 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL23098335M Openlibrary_edition Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:45:08 Boxid IA175701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 2 ed. Media control : the spectacular achievements of propaganda Bookreader Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item.
Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmann’s theory of 'spectator democracy,' in which the public is seen as a 'bewildered herd' that needs to be directed, not empowered and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on 'controlling the public mind,' and not on informing it. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission 'succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population,' 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. According to Chomsky, 'propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state,' and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. Noam Chomsky, in full Avram Noam Chomsky, (born December 7, 1928, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.), American theoretical linguist whose work from the 1950s revolutionized the field of linguistics by treating language as a uniquely human, biologically based cognitive capacity. Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy-one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled.
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