Malone LaVeigh
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Puh-leez. Noam Chomsky is one of the biggest critics of liberalism in the world.Libs like Chomsky and Vidal are good sources to debunk the myth of liberal media? Please.
If his books are too hard to get your brain around, there's an excellent documentary available in video, also called Manufacturing Consent.P.S. Noam Chomsky is unreadable, and a bore.
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I really don't want to get into a fight over Noam Chomsky. I don't always agree with his foreign policy positions. But I think his analysis of the media is spot-on. Another central theme of his analysis is that the media don't really have the power to control what the public thinks, but it has the ability to control what it thinks about. It sets the parameters of the national debate. This is absolutely true.
Look at any debate in any of the major mainstream media over the war in Iraq. The debate is always framed in a way that serves the administration and the forces that want to go to war. The debate isn't over the morality or legality of waging war for oil. It's over side issues such as whether the admin should wage war without permission of Congress. Or UN approval. Or whether the cost will be too high. Tactical debates such as this dominated coverage back during the Vietnam days also. that's why people took to the streets. Their voices were not being reflected in any way by the media.