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Media control : the spectacular achievements of propaganda

By: Chomsky, Noam
Material type: BookSeries: Open media book.Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2002.Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 105 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 9781583225363Other title: Spectacular achievements of propaganda.Subject(s): Propaganda | Propaganda -- United States | Mass media and propaganda | Mass media -- Political aspects | Mass media and public opinionDDC classification: 320.014 CH ME Online resources: Location Map
Summary:
Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy--one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson's Creel Commission "suceeded, 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.
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320.014 CH ME (Browse shelf) Available June2018 T0058820
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"An open media book."

Early history of propaganda --
Spectator democracy --
Public relations --
Engineering opinion --
Representation as reality --
Dissident culture --
Parade of enemies --
Selective perception --
Gulf War --
Journalist from Mars.

Chomsky begins by asserting two models of democracy--one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson's Creel Commission "suceeded, 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.

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