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Title: Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
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This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of their populations. The key examples featured for this analysis are the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor. Written by Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
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media | east timor | manufacturing consent | media criticism | critical thinking |Taglines:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
6 November 1992 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
Chomsky, les médias et les illusions nécessaires See more »Filming Locations:
American University - 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, District of Columbia, USA See more »Company Credits
Production Co:
Humanist Broadcasting Foundation, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Necessary Illusions Productions Inc. See more »
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[title card: They who have put out the peoples eyes reproach them of their blindness. - John Milton, 1642. ]
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Written by Stephen Stills
Performed by Buffalo Springfield
Produced by Charles Greene and Brian Stone
Courtesy of Ten East Music, Springalo & Cotillion (BMI)
Published by Warner-Tamerlan Publishing Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
© Warner/Chappell Music Inc.
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Chomsky himself had a mixed reaction to the film, feeling that it simply didn't communicate his message. See more »Quotes
[first lines][title card: They who have put out the peoples eyes reproach them of their blindness. - John Milton, 1642. ]
EMTV video host: Three, two, one, take two. Good morning!... My name is Kevin Flook, and I'm your video host all day here at EMTV.
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Canadian and U.S. copyright laws allow "fair dealing" and "fair use" of a copyrighted work for purposes such as comment, criticism, reporting, teaching, scholarship, research, review and quotation. See more »Soundtracks
For What It's WorthWritten by Stephen Stills
Performed by Buffalo Springfield
Produced by Charles Greene and Brian Stone
Courtesy of Ten East Music, Springalo & Cotillion (BMI)
Published by Warner-Tamerlan Publishing Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
© Warner/Chappell Music Inc.
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The film makers, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick, achieve the seemingly impossible by turning Noam Chomsky's dry political theories and persona into a fascinating, entertaining movie, and all on a presumably tight budget. If you want to gain insight into the workings of the US media system then this movie will give you some food for thought. Hardly surprising then that Hollywood did not award them an Oscar for this, even thought they sure would have deserved one.