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Media control : the spectacular achievements of propaganda Noam Chomsky

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Open media bookPublication details: New York : Seven Stories Press, c2002.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 105 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 9781583225363
Other title:
  • Spectacular achievements of propaganda
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.014 CH ME
Online resources: 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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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection 320.014 CH ME (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available June2018 T0058820
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320.011 MI PO Political philosophy : 320.014 CA NT Can the media serve democracy? : 320.014 CH HY The hybrid media system : 320.014 CH ME Media control : 320.014 CR PE Performing politics : 320.014 GI ON Online political communication : 320.014 ME DI Mediatization of politics :

"An open media book."

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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