Noam Chomsky Interview Used in Documentary "Manufacturing Consent", February 1, 1990

[@gustavocabrera-mw4vl]

JEWELS OF HISTORY ... these interviews are very important to strive towards an honest world.

[@noncorporatenews]

I agree.

[@KnowledgeVariable]

is it me or is relaxing to listen to noam?

[@Big-guy1981]

It is you. 😊😊

[@joemamauwu]

Not just you

[@KnowledgeVariable]

@@joemamauwu you're illuminati

[@joemamauwu]

Can a fellow illuminatee enjoy a KZbin video?

[@KnowledgeVariable]

@@joemamauwu why not? Just do not curse me, i serious.

[@stephenwallace8782]

There is something so iconic about this era of Chomsky's life...In his sixties, which now appears to us followers of his work as a young sage. I am a kid by comparison, I suppose - only 29. But you can look at Chomsky here, some of the lectures of the late 80's, through the 1990's....Whatever has inspired Chomsky's social criticism....seems to me that, during this era of his life, it is of a specially-developed intensity. I am grateful to see "Non-Corporate News" from Mark Achbar's documentary is on KZbin....some of the excerpts of this exact interview ended up sustaining my sanity through the difficulties of coming-of-age and many personal trials. Even nowadays, in 2021, he carries on. I am lucky to have met him a few times and talked with him a few times too. Humble, helpful, sincere. Greetings to Non-Corporate News from Western MA. Workin' away in kitchens in Springfield.

[@noncorporatenews]

Hi Stephen, Thanks for that nice response. It was a lucky break that I wound up in that documentary, it isn't like they did a nationwide search for best public-access person, and I won. They just happened to be in town the same day I did that interview. They also setup all the equipment, which I was unfamiliar with. If I had done it myself, it would've looked and sounded like sh*t probably. Best wishes.

[@edwardjones2202]

Agreed. He's a force of nature

[@michaelrch]

"If you can read the media with enough cynicism...then you can resist." Fundamentally the most important thing to know about how to interact with the MSM. Learning about Chomsky's work is not a comforting experience but living in a world that is largely ignorant of his wisdom is far worse.

[@noncorporatenews]

I agree with you.

[@JohnCox-ut3cv]

We need now to develop our knowledge of the algorithm and how we navigate around it. The algorithm belongs to the state - the empire. Empires are always disintegrating & slowly being made naked.

[@paifu.]

17:00 Inequality and the communication system. 22:30 How the material conditions and education of people influence their ability to inform themselves properly. 35:45 Atomization and development of thought

[@DaveE99]

Yeah people always say education robs kids of creativity without every pointing out it’s the atomization of kids and seperation of education from psychological and social and physical needs that’s why it does that

[@mourdebars]

"sitcom culture" - how well said!

[@Rakesedan]

So that *is* indeed the term he’s saying: “sitcom”??? I did a triple take, and have been unsuccessfully scouring the net to try and confirm….

[@TheRisenPeopleEire]

Choamsky helped unveil the rot for many generations of people. I will be forever grateful for his works.

[@backwardthoughts1022]

duh

[@mck1972]

LOL In reality, Chomsky's paranoid rants are actually, ' the rot ', themselves! 😀😀😀

[@backwardthoughts1022]

@@mck1972 lol imagine being you

[@mck1972]

@@backwardthoughts1022 , You can dare to dream! :-D

[@tommytwobrews]

@@mck1972 - he said, after insulting people who are daring to dream

[@AymanB]

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTASTIC. Thank you tonnes for sharing this.

[@noncorporatenews]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pwhitz]

This is incredible. Thank you so much!

[@noncorporatenews]

You're very welcome!

[@nimchimpsky7314]

Finally! I'm not sure whether I should thank you for sharing or lash out for not sharing all this time.

[@noncorporatenews]

Let me know when you decide. :)

[@nimchimpsky7314]

@@noncorporatenews Being a 'half full' type of person, I suppose it's better late than never. :) I wish you all the very best

[@noncorporatenews]

Thanks. What I'm really upset about is the tapes I recorded and lost. Best wishes to you, "Nim".

[@Blonde111]

Boy, he called it way back when

[@noncorporatenews]

He certainly did.

[@daviddawson1718]

That could be said for 90% of Noam's descriptions and predictions.

[@domsim9516]

Orwell and Huxley got it exactly right even earlier as well

[@iquitnow]

He doesn't realize he is the biggest fool. He speaks from a place of experience when he has not left his circle for 50 years

[@xx133]

Wait until you read Marx

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

October Surprise by Gary Sick, Orwell Rolls in His Grave, all on U tube for anyone to watch

[@diamondbracelette]

Great segment to post! TY

[@noncorporatenews]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mck1972]

28:00: Interviewer asks Chomsky about, ' Underrreported Stories '. 31:00 Chomsky discusses Middle East.

[@bstev98]

where did you get this? Thank you for uploading it

[@noncorporatenews]

You're welcome. It's the original tape from the interview I did with Noam Chomsky for my public-access TV show, "Non-Corporate News".

[@bstev98]

@@noncorporatenews has this ever been uploaded to the internet in full before?

[@farmface]

@@noncorporatenews Great Interview, thanks for the upload

[@noncorporatenews]

@@bstev98 No.

[@noncorporatenews]

@@farmface You're welcome.

[@brad1928]

27:45 Wow.. he really hit the nail on the head with where we are in 2024

[@AK-jt7kh]

Wow…there is actually a “non-corporate news”? Avoiding corporately funded media is core to my belief system. I didnt realize there were other people who followed this line of thinking.

[@noncorporatenews]

Yes, Virginia, I mean A K, there is a Non-Corporate News, and there is a significant amount of people who realize that our corporate media is flawed by it's structure, never mind its product.

[@AK-jt7kh]

@@noncorporatenews Virginia? Is that a reference? If so it’s lost on me.

[@noncorporatenews]

@@AK-jt7kh Sorry, yes, a little girl, Virginia, wrote into a newspaper asking if there was a Santa Claus and the journalist published his response, which began, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus". And people in the US of my generation are familiar with it.

[@AK-jt7kh]

@@noncorporatenews Oh, that’s cute! You learn something new every day.

[@johnmaisonneuve9057]

Thank you for posting. Prof. Chomsky is absolutely incredible in his knowledge of the facts, current and historical. His truth-telling, essays, books, for some 45 or so years, are precious and necessary reading. America is and has been an imperial power. We are indeed privileged to have Noam all these years. I have learned so much from his writings.

[@noncorporatenews]

You're welcome! I agree.

[@edwardjones2202]

Do the pseudo-intellectual meanderings of Jordan Peterson or the trivial snipings of Sam Harris have more depth and lasting relevance than this guy's work?

[@mck1972]

Let's hope so...smh

[@daviddawson1718]

I deeply enjoy Sam's work, Jordan is a very sharp, capable, and professional. Why do I need to listen to a punk hiding in his grandparents basement.

[@ratulxy]

Of course not.

[@jocksamsung2565]

They are different people coming from different place. The question is our we as a people becoming more informed and if so what are we doing about it and where is our collective

[@groovygamers1]

What a dumb question. Theyre all important figures.

[@user-target4AGI]

The Article of Association is also aN INTERESTING and by far the most IMPORTANT DOCUMENT !!! COMPANY'S SECRET ... !

[@lukelewkowicz2233]

Primal in its' onset I would like to add that we are all "pidgeon "wholed". Mostly reflection of mothers' lifes' misadventures. Columbiformes if preffered.

[@jonasdauerbrenner6432]

amazing, thank you

[@noncorporatenews]

You're welcome.

[@DJhostiletonewexperiences]

He was 62 here. Isn't that crazy?

[@kukachoo42]

This man has BARS

[@mariosmarchi4281]

I think it's one of the most interesting interviews I've ever seeen. Chomsky's way of explaining things just make so much sense to me. Thanks for sharing

[@noncorporatenews]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@olivetreelighthouse8659]

10:30 A major terrorist state, an expansionist and aggressive power. 10:48 US Aid highly correlated with torture.

[@eoharafisher]

He’s predicting the power of leftist podcasts (talking about radio stations that are listener supported.) They have become a huge challenge to corporate press manufacturing consent right now, particularly on Israel/Palestine.

[@OsamaBinFraggin]

He's talking about propaganda no matter which side you lean to. If you think for a moment that there isn't a democratic country that doesn't do this to some extent, you're blind or a bot.

[@fionamarland-bn4nx]

Easy listening, yes,

[@leftmit9217]

Never judge a book by its cover.

[@boorhaave5880]

Is that 'Medical Nemesis' behind Chomsky's right shoulder on the shelf?

[@chantalderementeria]

Ivan Illich

[@revolucionarionacional623]

2:36 3:03 35:42

[@RonaldPetrin]

An existential dance of yen-yin wrapped in politics all about degrees of difference. How long ago was this interview? It seems we’ve mobilized with cooler minds of late.on social media and its growth and influence in 2024.

[@briansandford614]

I wasn’t sure if I would agree with you. But this time I do in much of what said

[@DaveE99]

Look up multi-polar traps. It applies to a lot of what he talks about and also our own lives. And once you understand them they are all over the place

[@rational-public-discourse]

"The military is obviously a propaganda agency." That's something we should think about when looking at how the Israeli Army is having a real effect in the reporting of the conflict between Palestinians and their illegal occupier of Israel.

[@bennyrodriguez8788]

33:54 Venezuela 🇻🇪 2018

[@Chris.4345]

Thank you for sharing

[@noncorporatenews]

You're welcome.

[@briankeely1265]

This is awesome

[@akap_987]

Chomsky was so incredibly prescient….it boggles my mind! I used to think I understood what he was saying, but I did not quite understand

[@redman6790]

@31:01

[@anthonykenny1320]

Ok assuming that Noam is right and it does sound exaggeratedly bleak and cynical to me since it assumes the average citizen is incapable of thinking for themselves and is totally dependent on mass media for its opinions But I am more interested in what he thinks we should do about it rather than being dragged down a tunnel of despair with no light in sight In Australia (that’s down under to Americans) we have “the pub test” which politicians are terrified of because it is the collective bull shit detector which the “ordinary” bloke in the pub will wield and declare a politician as being either a wanker or not too bad The inherent skepticism of the average Ozzie is fairly immune to manipulation and acts as a on pollies getting up themselves

[@simonbailey8814]

Fellow Aussie here. Can’t agree re the pub test. Aussies may be more cynical than US citizens but I think we are as controlled by advertising, corporations, political influence and the media.

[@mck1972]

​ @underthecortex , LOLOL Your reply actually proves MY point-A point that you apparently missed the first time. So I will try & make it clearer for you: Belichick has in fact achieved actual real world results in football! VS Chomsky, who has achieved ZERO real world results in either football, or any other field, outside Linguistics! Regardless of what YOU THINK of Chomsky’s, ‘ ideas ‘! Instead Chomsky has spent his career merely criticizing others regarding fields that Chomsky has NEVER had the guts to actually work in himself-Which is Everything Outside Linguistics! So the reality is that until Chomsky does in fact achieve real world results himself in any field outside Linguistics, Chomsky’s, ‘ ideas ‘, about any field outside Linguistics are in fact essentially worthless! Regardless if the data that Chomsky recites about these fields with the luxury of Hindsight is accurate itself!

[@ramazanhoxha4265]

love noam chomsky ❤

[@AZWill88]

Illusion of democracy

[@sonnyvarioni1654]

If you only listened to the first ten minutes of this you'd think Chomsky was sad the US isn't genuinely democratic.

[@spencerwhittington7355]

1:57

[@RonaldPetrin]

We’re the Dudley Do Rights as we were indoctrinated to think. Andy Kaufmans voice, “ Here I come to save the daaay!”

[@timestimesx7535]

27:45

[@JD-jc8gp]

Russia figured out how to combat the US empire, China too. They incorporated the so-called free markets but under the tight control of the state, Putin's party in Russia and the Communist party in China, brought over the best aspects of global Western culture (food, entertainment, technology, business practices, etc) and, crucially, adopted Western approaches to propaganda. They have their own "democracies" over there and their own ways of subtly shaping public opinion, not through totalitarian means, but rather, as Chomsky says, by controlling the range of acceptable opinion. Both of these countries kicked out Western NGOs, but they've allowed aspects of Western culture and even pro-Western discourse remain, but all outnumbered and overpowered by their own local institutions. In Russia much of this has happened in recent years, accelerated by the Ukraine war which has been a very successful propaganda coup for Putin (it prevented capital flight, brought Russian oligarchs under state control, and reinforced public support for the state due to effectively managed patriotic propaganda). And just like that, Western soft power is dead. Russia and China won by beating the Americans at their own game. Now, thanks to recent events, and partly due to the stupidity of Western politicians, both of these countries have become effectively sanctions-proof. They're doing Liberalism better than the West now and, as a result, Western hegemony is on the decline.

[@HorukAI]

I wouldn’t claim already who’s won, but certainly they’re trying to play that game. Western institutions are still very flexible in self-repair, while eastern are still quite rigid, too hierarchical and prone to cracking (eg. Wagner’s march to Moscow)

[@samcoupe4608KB]

Very sorry noam it's the manchester guardian

[@JasonMarkGriffiths-g6q]

Marathan evolved into Snickers 😊

[@Jad3dJane]

Fantastic man, thank you Noam.

[@caseyforeman]

All three of the gentlemen you mentioned are from different fields of study. Your slight against both Harris and Peterson, pretentiously posed as a question exposes a lack of intelligence that would be required to even recognize the level of intelligence and knowledge with which these individuals experience reality. As a matter of fact, every single person who's had the audacity to assume that they're in any way, shape or form qualified to critique the ideas or philosophies or theories that all three, Chomsky, Harris or Peterson, in the comment section of a video that was uploaded two years ago of an interview that was conducted and recorded twenty-four years ago are displaying nothing other than arrogance and ignorance and are as far from affecting them, or anyone fortunate enough to even begin to understand their deepth of understanding and intelligence, as you are from Bootes Void. Personally, i respect and enjoy listening to all three though I haven't the hubris to claim to understand and/or agree with everything they propose but I appreciate the good faith with which they conduct themselves and their positions. Unfortunately, the same can't be said of those to whom my comment is intended.

[@mrgaryboyd7359]

You're the biggest bone head. I've ever had the displeasure of hearing from..

[@partypete4278]

After reading Manufacturing Consent I took the TV out of the house. I’m disappointed the world I knew was taught through a telescreen.

[@planetvegan7843]

Next thing you know you will be going plant based.

[@partypete4278]

Ayurveda is what I have found to be true.

[@JohnCox-ut3cv]

This goes back to the formation of Hollywood. Growing up in the 1960's my father would always grab a broom if American westerns were on TV. Someone has to sweep away the bullets he would say.

[@kennethmarshall306]

He gave me the intellectual confidence to keep thinking and saying what I already, kind of, thought.

[@HughErickson]

He's been contradicting himself for the last 35 years, especially after talking negatively about the military industrial complex only to have your early work paid for by the military industrial complex.

[@noncorporatenews]

That's not a contradiction.

[@HughErickson]

@noncorporatenews to be at odds with, yes, it is a contradiction.

[@JD-jc8gp]

@@HughErickson There's a Matt Bors cartoon about people like you

[@DaveE99]

What is your point, I don’t think you really communicated anything of value here.

[@mck1972]

​ @underthecortex , LOLOLOL Chomsky: “ I am better qualified to coach the New England Patriots than Bill Belichick because I can accurately recite more past football stats than he can! “ Owner of New England Patriots: “ Excuse me Noam, but you have ZERO actual credentials in football! In fact, you have never even set foot on a football field in your life! “ Chomsky: “ HA! Credentials are irrelevant! ideas and their legitimacy are all that matters! “ 😀😀😀😀😀

[@joshbaino3087]

This interview has aged so well when he was talking about H W Bush I thought he was talking about W

[@theboyisnotright6312]

There's a difference?😂😂

[@englishdogs]

Humans are inherently competitive and most people are followers who want to follow someone.

[@DaveE99]

Actually we are more plastic than you know, but look up multi polar traps and listen to Daniel schmactenberger

[@doliver5447]

What an utter fountain of cynicism and conspiracy thinking.

[@mck1972]

That pretty much sums up Chomsky's entire career! 😂😂😂

[@HkFinn83]

Well I’m glad it’s an utter fountain and not a partial fountain!

[@HorukAI]

He just know how power centers and holders think and act not just in US but from antiquity till today, and he’s not wrong - the problem I have with his thought is the moralistic stance which doesn’t have place in power games.

[@doliver5447]

@@HorukAI I would disagree that he knows. He theorizes and reaches conclusions about how things work that are unfalsifiable and you either believe them or don’t based on your own values. That’s just ideology. My problem with that is ideologies are useless for problem solving but wonderfully effective for dividing people into tribal camps that shout past one another and fight rather than listen, compromise and get things done.

[@indianausa542]

@@mck1972He’s talking about you.

[@howardmenkes2926]

One of America's enemies

[@mck1972]

LOL As long as people know better than to take Chomsky seriously, then he does not rise to the level of being a real, ' Enemy '. 😀

[@mck1972]

LOL Noam is a, ' god ', of fools! 😂😂😂

[@mck1972]

@fabiengerard8142 LOL Chomsky’s, ‘ intellectual brilliancy ‘, is in reality meaningless outside academia-Unless he can demonstrate that, ‘ intellectual brilliancy ‘, can actually achieve better results than those he criticizes in real world conditions! Vs Chomsky spending his life merely critiquing everyone else from the sidelines, regarding fields that he has NEVER actually worked in himself-Which is Everything Outside Linguistics-Like the Worthless Armchair Critic that he is!

[@kennethmarshall306]

Almost everything he says is significant and interesting. He doesn’t waste time with frivolity.

[@mck1972]

@underthecortex , LOL Chomsky is, ' cited ', because the data he recites is accurate in & of itself. Which I never denied. Nor did I ever deny Chomsky's influence in matters related to Linguistics. But-There is ZERO proof that Chomsky has ever influenced any issue facing this country in any Measurable, Verifiable way-Outside Linguistics-Whether regarding the Viet Nam Conflict, or anything else! ' Manufacturing Consent ', is itself just another example Chomsky's unsubstantiated paranoid rants, with data that does NOT actually prove what Chomsky asserts-Even IF that data is accurate in & of itself! Which pretty much also applies to most everything that Chomsky has ever written outside Linguistics! So no matter how many books Chomsky has written-It is still all essentially Worthless!

[@Dr.acai.jr.]

X

[@HandleGF]

"That was the photograph of the thin man in the concen- eh, buh, behind the barbed wire..." - Chomsky on Serbian TV :-D what a charlatan

[@dr.elvis.h.christ]

Chumpsky talks in circles.

[@johnmacgregor324]

Clueless interviewer - but what a gem of concision as to the United States & its role.

[@Chris.4345]

Comment for the algo

[@Rohit-oz1or]

He just summed up the whole world politics..

[@sajidanaseer1361]

Chomsky manufactures consent for liberal empire

[@TheSpiritOfTheTimes]

How so?

[@VincentTroia]

edgelord bs

[@shaheer151]

sajida naseer; ' liberal empire' is an oxymoron. Empires are not liberal but oppressive . Anyway one looks at it , your sentence needs clarification.

[@mck1972]

@@shaheer151 , Not at all: When a group of people seek to exert control over others, and spread their influence as much as they can-Exactly like insane woke Liberals are trying to do today here in the US, then that is very much a would-be, ' Liberal Empire '.

[@mck1972]

@@shaheer151 , LOL Actually what we are seeing now in the US is in fact a Liberal Empire: Where the Insane Woke Left is hellbent on taking over society, and silencng anyone they disagree with! SMH And I have read, ' Manufacturing Consent ''; it contains ZERO actual proof of any of Chomsky's claims!

[@dieterreinhard8025]

Go Go Russia!

[@MattSingh1]

*“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States.”* *― Christopher Hitchens*