Manufacturing Consent

by Achbar, Mark; Institute of Policy Alternatives (Montreal, Quebec)

• ISBN13: 9781551640020
• ISBN10: 1551640023
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-01
• Publisher: Black Rose Books Ltd

Summary

Winner of more than a dozen festival awards, the film has played to packed houses in more than two hundred cities worldwide.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Notes on Process

The Man

Early Influences

Vietnam--A Turning Point

On His Role

The Media

Thought Control in Democratic Societies

A Propaganda Model

The Gulf "War"

A Case Study--Cambodia and East Timor

Concision--A Structural Constraint

"Sports Rap with Noam Chomsky"

A Cabal of Anti-Conspiricists

Media in Media, Pennsylvania

Alternative Media

The Linguist

Basic Premises

Nim Chimpsky: Chimpanzee

And the Elusive Connection to His Politics

The Social Order

On Education

Anarchism/Libertarian Socialism

Resistance and Critical Analysis

The Critics (Media-Based)

William F. Buckley, Jr.--"Firing Line"

David Frum--Journalist, Washington Post

Jeff Greenfield--Producer, "Nightline"

Karl E. Meyer--Editorial Writer, The New York Times

Peter Worthington--Editor, The Ottawa Sun

The Critics (Other Elites)

Fritz Bolkestein--Former Dutch Minister of Defense

Michel Foucault--Philosopher

Yossi Olmert--Tel Aviv University

John Silber--President, Boston University

Tom Wolfe--Author

The Frat Man from Laramie

L'affaire Faurisson: An Issue of Peculiar Persistence

The Middle East

Support for Palestinian Rights

After the Accord

Central America

Invasion of Panama

Nicaragua

El Salvador

The Film

Chomsky's Reactions

Dedication to Emile de Antonio

Production Chronology

Who's in the Film

The Filmmakers

Festivals and Awards

How to Order the Film

Resource Guide

Index

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