Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent revisited | The Listening Post

[@Behemoth29]

Noam Chomsky is a living legend. Manufacturing Consent was a pivotal moment in my understanding of geopolitics and media coverage.

[@laurier3348]

Did you yesterday notice Chomsky trying to manufacture consent for keeping the US army in Syria ? Chomsky the war monger.

[@Behemoth29]

+@@laurier3348If you took the time to notice, that interview was done in October, but only became popular yesterday. And his position on the matter is strictly for purposes of the protection of the Kurds, not for toppling the Assad government.

[@laurier3348]

@@Behemoth29 The Kurds can protect them selves, they are strong. The US was mainly in Syria to prevent Iran from rolling in.

[@laurier3348]

Chomsky the war monger showing his real face.

[@Behemoth29]

+@@laurier3348 The Kurds are a competent fighting force. However, without at least a token US presence they will be facing Turkey, Assad, Iran and Russia alone.

[@CyndiLH]

The last few minutes of this piece offer some of the most sage advice...the idea of not simply dismissing the media as so many may assume he is saying, but to read and listen critically, to seek multiple sources and to engage in a thoughtful way.....the same holds true for government. When people disengage, these institutions become even more powerful.

[@SamoVasPosmatram.]

Facts!

[@rhythmandblues_alibi]

Exactly 🙌

[@webdesign4619]

BBC Guy: - How can you know that I am self-censoring? Chomsky:- I am not saying that you are self-censoring.- I am sure that you believe everything you are saying.- But, what I am saying is that, if you believed something different you wouldn't be sitting where you are sitting.

[@stevengao8527]

Well thats not necessarily true, top journalists I'm sure know exactly what they are doing but they are willing to compromise for the big pay check

[@YuureiInu]

That's the same reason we won't have good politicians, they will never go up the ladder.

[@solidaritytime3650]

@@stevengao8527 true- there's corruption at every level. That said, the fact that some media personalities may be playing a part doesn't change the fact that, if they'd professed to believe inconvenient truths, they'd never have been given the position to begin with.

[@faizanusmani1039]

@@stevengao8527 yes

[@beccareynolds4625]

@@stevengao8527 I think he was being cheeky and calling out the lack of morals within journalism

[@arashkborzoo]

The HuffPo guy answered the exact way I expected, by rejecting Chomsky and pretty much saying; no we work real hard, were not corporate tools, exactly the same arrogance both Chomsky and even John Stewart have warned about.

[@FreekinEkin2]

Yeah, the guy was trying to imply that individual journalists are the problem, and therefore all he needs to do is be diligent and he won't make those mistakes. But Herman and Chomsky's point is that he is part of a system, and no matter how hard he tries, he will be severely punished if he steps too far out of line. So, his framing on individuals distracts from the corporate system. He reproduced some of the moves of propaganda there.

[@arashkborzoo]

@@FreekinEkin2 I know it was so ridiculously obvious, he was everything chomsky described.

[@mazxbv]

that guy said the book manufacturing consent provides journalists with a manual of commonly made mistakes. Apparently spewing out complete lies on the airwaves to feed corporate profits & the war machine was a mistake, or maybe the mistake was being found out.

[@mck1972]

@@mazxbv, Yes because who better to judge such an important topic than a Linguistics Professor, with ZERO Real World Experience in Legitimate Investigative Journalism himself-Merely his own preconceived conclusions of how HE THINKS the media works, based on his own one-sided data! smh

[@unfortunatebeam]

The (Gas)Huffington Post is a complete joke. One of the worst publications ever.

[@TheAsdsdswww]

I'm amazed at the naivete of Aman Sethi, and this is the editor in chief of a mainstream news outlet. If anything, he proves Noam's points.

[@aneurindavies5943]

Ask who are the real owners, and proprietors of Main Stream Journalism, and Media Propagandists Hype 🤔?

[@hayk3000]

​@aneurindavies5943 No, it is not THE JEWS. It's the wealthy. Stop being goofy and read a book. In fact, just pay attention to the video you're supposed to be watching.

[@peace4world]

Gratitude to you Prof. Chomsky for your gifts of knowledge to humankind. One day, hopefully, the values you stand for might come true in the world.

[@ChiIeboy]

And yet he ultimately upended his entire thesis by admitting that his very first and preferred source of "news" is the New York Times. Words can't convey the utter irony in that admission. Amazing.

[@BillNepill]

The Huffpost guy is a perfect example of someone who gets the corporate media gig for his 'correct' views.

[@excitedaboutlearning1639]

Yeah, honestly, most people I know totally believe the media, and I used to, too, but seeing the American 2020 election, I've started to see through it.

[@sideedali5747]

He made a very valid point, which was echoed by the Israeli reporter.

[@kalebnbrown]

Exactly!

[@tgsaravind]

@@excitedaboutlearning1639 I agree 100%. And this is the state in most countries. India, in my case.

[@anti-classist]

@@sideedali5747 he just doesn't get it... He has a point but I simply don't think he thinks in the layers Noam does...he is a face value guy.

[@andrewvalenski921]

Lmao, surprise surprise that the HuffPost editor is as blind as we’d all expect. Seems like someone who didn’t take down their defenses before approaching the material and buried their head in their own world. Huffpost doing huffpost things - thanks for sharing this AJ!

[@alsammon8333]

Fabulous interview with one of the most gifted minds today. I found compelling the introduction animation video, it breaks it down to simplicity. Bravo Aljezzera.

[@michaelhenshaw-vetmedengli2064]

Excellent piece. I commend AJ and Richard Gizbert. It is clearly a difficult topic to cover, and I'm grateful for this channel's earnestness. It's hard to find this kind of stuff without it containing polemics (RT) or being overly focused on the US (Democracy Now!).

[@hayk3000]

All of the news you mention are mainly focused on the US. AJ is run by the Qatari authoritarian monarchy and the only reason we get high quality anti-US empire stuff like this is to ironically manufacture consent for us into thinking that this news resource is reliable and not to worry to much about Qatar. The same with RT, it's owned by the Russian government. Chomsky has comented on this. The only outlier and one of the few safe options is Democracy Now! Which is an independent that has no relation with the US government nor adverisers but it's directly funded by it audience's donations.

[@AmateurSpaceman]

For some reason, having KZbin ads pop up during this video is rather fitting.

[@KTMGUNNER]

Chomsky doesn't search Google, Google searches Chomsky.

[@MultiSmartass1]

LOL Funny but true.

[@dhvanitdesai1044]

Lol good chance that's literally true

[@greatmcluhansghost7134]

When Google goes to bed at night, Google turns on a night light, not because is worried about the bogeyman, Google is worries about Chomsky

[@thejustin3269]

Noam is the algorithm.

[@JarvisBlay-wd3ms]

Google? 😊😊😊 LOL, Google isn't even a real technology company much less a search engine..... It's a company under Alphabet, Microsoft that spies on it's users for the foreign enemies CIA FBI NSA and so on .....Why do you think 🤔 they hide in the mountains of Mountview California?

[@redag5459]

thanks for this special edition

[@Matamick]

"One of the most effective devices is to encourage debate, but within a system of unspoken presuppositions that incorporate the basic principles of the doctrinal systems. These principles are therefore removed from inspection; they become the framework for thinkable thought, not objects of rationale consideration." Noam Chomsky

[@Matamick]

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” Noam Chomsky

[@danmaftei7633]

Very interesting. I appreciate the different view points with the three journalists.

[@montehammons7917]

Thanks, great interview. Al Jazeera to hear one of the greatest intellects of our time, that's how busted our trust has been betrayed by today's media. This is why I shut off dish tv, no more manufactured news content.

[@bundleofperceptions1397]

Even if you were able to convince a majority of the people their consent was being manufactured, it wouldn't do any good, because most people are too ignorant to know why they should care whether their consent is their own or manufactured by someone else.

[@PahaPoniesSpanishMustangs]

It's them being manipulated not me 🤣🤘❤️

[@89strangelove]

Thank you for your brain, your humanity and humility Mr. Chomsky. I emailed the same thing to him, to thank him, to show my gratitude, he wrote back "Many thanks. Appreciated."

[@mck1972]

Yes if ONLY Chomsky had used that great brain of his to do MORE than merely criticize others in areas that he has ZERO Real World Experience in himself, and with the great luxury of 20/20 Hindsight! smh

[@89strangelove]

@@mck1972 he wakes people up, what is more important

[@mck1972]

@@89strangelove , In order to REALLY, ‘ wake people up ‘, one is required to actually know WTF they are talking about, in the field in question. -NOT merely cherry-pick fact & figures, to fit his own preconceived conclusions, in fields that he has ZERO Real World Experience in, himself! Which is what Chomsky has been doing for the past half-century!

[@1984levani]

One of the best human beings alive...

[@erubiel.h1487]

Pesky Echo You’re a delusional leech.

[@edeto16]

@Pesky Echo Chomsky is despised by most of the Jewish community.

[@eugenedebbs2189]

@@edeto16 probably despised by most Israelis, but maybe not the Jewish community. One shouldn't conflate Jews with Israelis.

[@ziggyarbani4582]

if half the population of the US knows who chomsky is the world would be a much better place.

[@morganlafey2455]

@Donald Kasper I believe you talk about yourself.

[@ishtlutz1261]

Ziggy Arbani SO TRUE

[@demitrijones6922]

No, he'll be dead. I think. Just an educated guess from history.

[@professor1029]

I believe it was Virgil who was standing at the entrance to Dante's "Inferno" & read a sign that said; "The Master of those who know" or something to that effect? Well in my opinion, Chomsky is the living master of all those who know in today's world.

[@milascave2]

Rob: agree with the spirit of what you say. But the sign in Dante's inferno said: "Abandon hope, ye who enter here."

[@DjWellDressedMan]

Growing up in the Excited States of America, Chomsky guided me through the 'insanity' of US foreign policy and his critique of everything has been consistent for 30 of my years as an adult and counting.

[@jonathaneffemey4892]

Thanks for posting.

[@kenanderson7769]

Just need to ask Julian Assange what happens to journalists who stray out of the permitted zone. I know that in Australia jounalists tend to pick a side and go with it. They just wait for the daily media releases from politicians staff and publish the information as though they had done some research. Any ideas or evidence coming from sources other that the two "Parties" that run parliament hardly get a look in. We even have laws allowing govt to detain people in secret without charge under legislation stamped national security. It is no wonder so many journalist cant tell the truth, they are not allowed to.

[@camilom2752]

Now he just might die in jail since the media made millions believe he is a bad guy that ruin Hillary election. People are so easily manipulated by the press

[@teecarter4900]

@@camilom2752 People are capable of intelligence. But as soon as they become informed, the establishment must choose. Let them live. Or disappear them. Hehe ...

[@jackdalton8031]

Australia doesn't have journalism (except for Michael West) it is all just soulless corporate garbage from NewsCorp and Nine Entertainment - both listed companies!

[@USARealEstateRevolution]

Excellent piece. Congratulations to all involved. Chomsky has always known what's going on.

[@godlessheathen100]

The amount of unironically inserted commercial interruptions made me chuckle.

[@QuestionYourAnswers]

Great production: creepy video from Amy Goodman moves forward to an astute interview by Richard Gizbert and spectrum of speakers like Matt Taibbi and journalists from Israel, India, etc. Super dope audio editing, too. This one's straight science!

[@MachinedFace88ttv]

You probably believe Mike was a pedo because of NEVERLAND BAH

[@MultiSmartass1]

Tabibbi is rather spot on when he talks about the structural class change within Journalism. When I started as a journalist in the 1990s, you couldn't have anything less than a Bachelors degree if you wanted to get hired. Journalism became a progression not simply a trade.

[@4Timesdafunky]

He's one of the best real journalists out there. I just finished reading his book "Hate Inc" and it draws so much from Manufacturing Consent and the appendix includes an interview with Chomsky by Matt himself.

[@justinwelgemoed]

case in point: "Drone shuts down Gatwick airport". No actual footage of _the_ drone, nor evidence of any kind, but lots of regurgitated scary footage of a lab test drone hitting an aircraft wing at high speed.

[@MrMcrusty]

i wouldn't exactly call that case in point lol

[@mimiseton]

Thank God for Noam Chomsky. One of the few voices of truth in our dystopian wilderness.

[@patbrennan6572]

But if there was a god we wouldn't need a Noam Chomsky.

[@demitrijones6922]

Perhaps Chomsky is heaven sent. God in the flesh. Most ppl hate God.

[@jehadxtreme]

HOW DO WE - AS A SPECIES - PRESERVE THIS MAN? AS MORBID AS IT SOUNDS - I SINCERELY HOPE HE OUT LIVES ME!!! Manufacturing Consent single-handedly changed my world views and no other book had such a profound impact on my beliefs.

[@benjaminmichael811]

16:58 Look at host's facial inclination when chomsky mentions about "read what the big brother told you to read otherwise you lose your job"🙊

[@teecarter4900]

Chomskys "students".

[@Jad3dJane]

Noam, you are a huge inspiration, thank you for your beautiful energy and honesty.

[@theory_underground]

Chomsky watching that cartoon was probably like, oh great.

[@Notfunnysam]

Gotta keep people with no attention span interested.

[@littletraveller5428]

When you realize the notion of manufactured consent is real you can then follow on to realizing we live in a matrix where everything around us is controlled.

[@lorenzo6mm]

YES By God and our MORTALITY ! Nobody gets out ALIVE !!!!!

[@siddhantgarud6070]

It is so freaking ironic funny, that when I the video after saying how advertisers are paying for our attention, and the line "consent is bein g manufactured" I got a youtube ad. Like wow, the irony hurts now

[@faizanusmani1039]

KZbin advertisers dont have direct contacts with people

[@siddhantgarud6070]

@@faizanusmani1039 yeah but KZbin does, and KZbin wants to show you certain ads, they have made it clear. They would much rather moderate content rather than give up their advertisers, manufacturing consent to the last letter.

[@leonsantamaria9845]

Long live to professor Noam Chomsky....👍👋😀❣️

[@cosmicwakes6443]

Our mode of production creates the superstructure and social relations and moving past that type of social relation is quite difficult.

[@lwhamilton]

I'm fine with the format of The Listening Post, but please upload the unedited interviews after. The cuts are painfully obvious for anyone familiar with Chomsky and some like to hear the man speak.

[@herbspencer4332]

More people need to ignore the media's 'Consent' stories & think for themselves.

[@lewischampion3050]

You see, each day I survey and click upon what has become now my daily diet of KZbin videos, and in doing so I find another book I never knew about and now feel I need, advanced advertisement!?

[@edgarboxify]

A shock to many is that Taibbi actually hails from the Valley...

[@user-bp2is5dj3h]

That animation at the start is creepy af

[@eje4794]

@@sudovirus3285 sometimes it's necessary to bring home the point!🖕🏻🖕🏿

[@dezmoanded]

It's very ugly

[@linus1594]

i loved it

[@benjamintchang3923]

dezmoanded yeah it’s hard to watch, the composition and textures are just kinda painful

[@danlc95]

I found it captivating.

[@hjalmarschacht2559]

An excellent interview. Chomsky needs no praise because no praise is sufficient for all he has done. I can praise the interviewer however: he was outstanding. God bless Noam Chomsky. He is irreplaceable.

[@mck1972]

Yes how can we sufficiently praise a Linguistics Professor, with ZERO Real World Experience in ANY other field, and whose criticisms of others all have the great luxury of 20/20 Hindsight? -What a challenge to, ' praise ', such a man! smh

[@LuisSanchez-lu4cu]

M CK. Think arson investigations and forensic evidence. Hmmmm.. What ACTUALLY took place here? YOU can defend the facts but you don't get to change them. Did you send people to prison on your own authority or did you look for the factual evidence?

[@mck1972]

@@LuisSanchez-lu4cu , LOL Funny you should say that-Because I am actually a former Fraud Invesigator myself; I worked on Criminal Prosecutions, and I presented evidence in Court-Things that Chomsky has NEVER done! And if Chomsky ever tried to present what HE THINKS is, ' Proof ', in Court, he would get laughed out of the place!

[@samikent5422]

This book was just about the best advice to come out of the movie Good Will Hunting.

[@waindayoungthain2147]

What’s honoring more than honesty ? We are destroyed each other’s 🙏🏻.

[@Walker-ld3dn]

Chomsky is a hero, no doubt. On a side note, Tabbi is pretty wonderful too. Check out his numerous articles on the 2008/9 financial crisis.

[@patriayvida6850]

The irony of Amy Goodman being featured in this piece is painful. She is a perfect example of how the corruption discussed here works. Sad.

[@emobloomer]

@@patriayvida6850 how so? Is there something I don't know or isn DN just not supportive enough of left or anti-imperial groups?

[@simills7495]

This is mainly due to Edward Bernays, one of the most despicable men in history, yet most have no idea who he was...clever eh?!

[@eliseville]

@SiMills Absolutely despicable, and the sleeziest plagiarist of his brilliant Uncle Sigmund's theory for HEALING the human mind! Bernays took those understandings of how emotions or repititions affect our subconscious thoughts and SOLD them to fascistic warlord presidents or cigarette corporations to make us EVIL and sick.

[@tertiary7]

i learned of him from the century of self documentary..

[@eliseville]

@@tertiary7 You mean the century of selfish-SELL/consume-everything-ism?

[@MilesBellas]

ANIMATION = SUPERB Please make more! Maybe hire Lewis Theroux or Amy again to narrate ?

[@user-ib4bg9kg5s]

My goal this year is to read foucault and chomsky

[@milascave2]

s: If you are interested in both those guys, a good place to start is the Foucalt-Chompsky debate. You can watch a video of it, and there is also a book which is longer. I have done both, and it is fascinating stuff.

[@oracle_0166]

Michelle Foucault?

[@wasimali8196]

Such powerful animation at the start.

[@bruceasadi4848]

If I have so little time for news in my day, I'd go to Democracy Now, Al Jazeera, or outlets alike.

[@yassineellehaskouri4739]

This man is the embodiment of a real intellectual

[@sonopro1]

Wow ! Le titre est tout croche. C'est: La Fabrication du consentement

[@nikolaichap8245]

Exact.

[@MilesBellas]

great animation

[@pippoespera8902]

13:52 That just means two things. Or you accepted or normalized that belief, or it's worthy of publishing, there is no problem there, some of the things that are published should be published, of course. To talk about some things and not to talk about other things, also important, is the problem. The question is what you don't talk about.

[@emadabualzolf9894]

Mr. Professor Chomsky is a hero 🙌 👏 ❤

[@amania9254]

Well, everyone knows that Noam Chomsky and his co-author were and are right, but still some hate to accept it.

[@mck1972]

LOL Actually it's Chomsky that has yet to accept that his book does not actually prove anything he claims! 😀

[@intuitknit]

You can understand this on a personal level if you have been a part of an activist movement and have approached the media to share your narrative only to find that your voice is exceedingly limited or stifled altogether in their coverage of the facts as they present them to the public they serve.

Then u realize what Trump is saying then?

[@intuitknit]

@ No, I think that his own words are incriminating enough.

[@jamiemalokas3693]

If you think the media is serving the public you might need to watch the video again.

[@sirius3333]

Chomsky was very kind to praise the animation.

[@bartwreck]

Interesting that he mentions WAPO & NYT first - 2 papers very much in the news for manufacturing news

[@Larkinchance]

When viewing internet news media as an alternative to the uniformity of broadcast media, one should always check the address bar or publisher and research the source. What is their opinion, what is their source of income and on what side of political issues do they support? This is not to accept or reject but that it should be a consideration when forming your own opinions. Knowing the source of news reporting is crucial..

[@pippoespera8902]

That is true, though is kind of easy to understand the subjectivity of a media outlet. Which causes do they support? Which it undermines or erase from the face of the earth?

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

Xtra crucial

[@camilom2752]

Noam a true global hero that will live on in history as long as we actually have a planet. Hopefully people put many of his books in a vault somewhere just in case

[@alex_ultra_trails]

Chomsky's voice is so soothing, what a legend

[@AndogaSpock]

Like a cat purring...

[@thecaveofthedead]

Taibbi is a fantastic example of a journalist who learned from Russia just how to be a more discerning journalist in the USA.

[@eddieperez9565]

And that's the problem, not enough discernable minds can do this, now if it's because they can't read or don't like to read, that's something else.

[@claudiabarber4779]

Aman Sethi (@13:29) said what if the people do realize that they are being lied to but say they don't care about the facts, and still believe that this should happen, that is where we are now. I feel we are too far gone now to share facts about the reality of issues, It's now irrelevant to many on all sides. They just want their desired outcome regardless anything else. Truth is dead.

[@parwankhan6458]

i realy want this legend to recite the kalima from bottom of my heart

[@thomaswalz3515]

This is a keeper... I killed my TV over 20 years ago... giving me the opportunity to see its effect on the public... and to see how compliant media consumers are. Society is damaged. Working class unity, power, is dissolved... Society's self-importance, makes everyone an authority of everything, where the most feared words to say is, "I don't know." It's all thanks to the media.

[@liamwinter4512]

The animated part needs to be redone

[@scottewing2031]

This doco was my red pill 20 years ago - amazing work.

[@naejin]

I recognize that voice to be Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

[@antispindr8613]

Does anyone else have doubts about Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!? For is she a true left-wing hero, or part of a line of dodgy online media?

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

Yes I think she is doin' a great job.

[@Camcolito]

'We'll return to 'Manufacturing Consent' after this short message from our sponsor!'

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

@@Camcolito 🤣

[@NextMoveNYC]

That was dope!

[@Discovery_and_Change]

Got an ad after 1 minute 42 seconds

[@TScott-vp9zv]

Praise God for people like him!

[@centori2011]

Just because the manufacturing of consent doesn't happen all the time in the media is not an argument that it doesn't happen at all as some in this video have tried to suggest.

[@johnmpandaguta3289]

Lmao it happens all the time

[@SamyAlingo1993]

The Indian guy has no clue that he is being played. Lol he seems to believe he is in control of his opinion. 😂😂😂

[@chlorine5795]

@@faizanusmani1039 Huffington Post is Left Leaning not Right Leaning. I am no fan of nationalistic ideologies , but come on mate atleast do some research on the premise on which you're indulging in name calling. How does that make you any different from the brainwashed alt right you ridicule ?

[@oracle8192]

@@chlorine5795 what did he say? It's in another language

[@msglitz19]

@@faizanusmani1039 He's not bhakt

[@meghraj1998]

@@chlorine5795 Huffington post is not exactly left leaning but liberal.

[@mattf8489]

The funny thing is, a revisiting is just allowing people to see generational propaganda at it's finest (worst)

[@glenrotchin5523]

It’s a tautology to say you believe what you believe because you don’t know what not to believe.

[@imranwzd]

Another aspect of looking into this supposed dilemma of News Corporations around the world is to have a good, hard and honest look on the financial model of their operations. If the consumers can't cover the production and operational cost of news generating entity then the it has to have develop workable financial model that can not allow it to compromise its credibility and integrity in the first place. This dependence to cover the operational cost and to generate inflated profits on power centre's of a state will lead to nowhere but to the road of self-deception and professional ignominy. A well thought-out and threshed balance should be deduced and maintained to cover the cost and to keep reasonable amount of profit for the corporation and to keep a firm check on personal ambitions and relentless greed is the need of the hour in the field of journalism.

[@keithstewart7514]

Please fix audio so I fly in the room buzzing around isn't enough to loudly override that of what Chomsky might of said but few if any can clearly hear???

[@ahazell733]

A great example of the manufacturing of consent was during Covid when the government told me not to go to work but stay home and work on my laptop from there. It felt in some respects like a privilege. Also, the socially distanced spin classes felt very exclusive with all the extra space. A small yet sizeable enough to be influential chunk of society was in a similar position which then was willing to support the government lockdowns and achieve greater compliance across the wider populace.

[@sarwansoomro5474]

Dr. Noam is the voice of millions of voiceless!

[@iangrant9675]

2 mins 29 secs. The statement that "media costs a lot more than consumers will ever pay" needs justification, because it is far from obvious to me that that is the case.

[@iangrant9675]

One thing I would have asked Chomsky is how the rates of pay of reporters and anchors on main-stream media channels affects the thesis that the journalist is not aware of the filter and consciously self-censoring. I mean, if you were Rachel Maddow and you had a choice of setting up your own KZbin channel and a Patreon account and saying what you really think you know, and probably getting banned within six months, or staying at CNN and carrying on drawing US$7,000,000 per year?

[@iangrant9675]

I think Chomsky himself is an example, not of what he claims is the mechanism behind manufacturing consent, but what he claims it is not: which is a conspiracy. It is a conspiracy of the military-industrial-academic complex to keep people believing that the evil deeds of corporations are not conscious, but merely the inevitable consequence of capitalism, which, though far from ideal as a way to organise society, is nevertheless "the best thing out there". This is a thinly disguised attempt to shirk personal moral responsibility for the disastrous consequences of people in the so-called "developed world" living greedily and selfishly.

[@TheStauntonBrothers]

I think he simply means that it takes a huge amount of money to run a media outlet like CNN, or print papers for any major outlet. Consumers don't directly pay for these (it costs far more to print and distribute papers than a consumer buys them for. So consumers pay in an indirct way, through being sold as a susceptible audience to advertisers.

[@vivz1000]

@@iangrant9675 I don't think people like Rachel maddow who sit in a newsroom studios are reporters anymore, they actors who keep up with current affairs, that's all.

[@vivz1000]

@@iangrant9675 neocons vs neoliberals?

[@herbspencer4332]

High-paid Journalists are scared of losing their over-paid "jobs".

[@Yuchub33]

Whats worse is a lot of them think theyre doing the right thing, they believe their own lies

[@teecarter4900]

Fort Hood. Could stand some checks and balances.

[@4Timesdafunky]

That HuffPost guy has a very skewed interpretation of the book. I'm wondering if he even read the same book.

[@foodfood55]

Ooft the advert on this video for me was the Gaza appeal showing the Al Jazeera tower getting missiled

[@1silvervespa]

Everyone should be taught Marketing .... If you learned Marketing this would be so easy to understand and FAST !!!

[@maremue111]

Music is too loud

[@preasail]

Starbuck's Pike Place Blend is the shittiest coffee in the world

[@danlc95]

Today, it's not just mass media. Included are educational, and entertainment industries that not just manufacture consent, but permissible narratives.

[@lilmsgs]

Who is the host? He's really good.

[@magicman1385]

it's his distinct voice

[@lilmsgs]

@@magicman1385 don't know what you mean.

[@magicman1385]

True pardon that mistake

[@mikeburke1348]

That guy with the bird on his shirt is trying to justify being a journalist.

[@MayorSom]

Cannot cut the hands that feeds you. Majority of "journalists" (journalism is a midddle/upper class's profession and comprises who are oblivious to the man on the Clapham omnibus) are presstitute and lickspittle for the establishment.

[@aneurindavies5943]

"They want very lively debate within very limited parameters" Noam Chomsky.

[@charliecurilan4110]

Clicked on "subscribe" because of this video.

[@zoofeather]

A format needs to allow a public non profit un-censured media platform on the internet highway way; 5 commercial interuptions during the interview - U tube boogie

[@RobertCoulter-dg1qf]

Truth can be refreshing. But used wrong, it will crush you.

[@Uhmph]

1. We need an AI version of Chomsky. 2. Hey KZbin, thanks for the disclaimer for who owns this channel; now also put that same disclaimer on all other major media so we know who owns/runs that too.

[@smuu1996]

When your country's smartest and most influencial man is also one of the oldest.

[@burner1303]

Noam was the first man to say "ok boomer"

[@christinel6616]

Intelligent people are a dying breed.

[@jasonnightingale644]

I don’t think it’s rare for the most wise in the village to be the eldest

[@anglosaxon7806]

I recimmend checking out chomsky's hundred books. But barring that, listen to his speech in the 90s on itunes! He has predicted much and does outline things very perceptively that might concern you now most of all.

[@anglosaxon7806]

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