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Article: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.
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- Cineaste
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- January 1, 1993
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The title of this film is borrowed from one of Noam Chomsky's books, which in turn lifted it from the prose of Walter Lippmann. Lippmann, once a mighty voice of liberal journalism elevated to the status of all-around Wise Man, but today relatively (and quite fairly) neglected, coined the phrase in the course of discussing the production of news out of the raw material of events. A democracy, he explained, rests on the consent of the governed, but that consent must be manufactured by controlling information on the basis of which political opinions are formed. Manufacturing Consent, though itself sponsored in part by an agency of a bourgeois democracy, The National Film ...