Opis:
A nice depthy look at the world of the media, and their huge influence on people's opinions and decisions. Chomsky goes rigorously though the New York times archives, and other newspapers, constructing what looks like a clear picture of how people's opinions are informed by TV and newspapers.
Even the editor of the Times looks lost for words when Chomsky demonsrates how every single occurance of US supported attrocities in East Timor were whitewashed by the mainstream media. Not one time, or ten times, but thousands of times, every time.
Although people like to shout 'conspiracy theory' at anything of this way of thinking, it is quite adeptly researched. As Chomsky remarks at one point in the film 'the mudslinger always wins.'
No, there isn't a room of people deciding what goes out across national media, just a set of unwritten rules which you don't get very far in your career without. Any common sense can tell you that a journalist who criticises US foreign policy powerfully, (rightly or wrongly) the way some do, won't be very popular. On the other hand, one who does the same to official enemies, will be duely rewarded.
There is no conspiracy, there is no paranoia, there is just what really happens, and how we can try to understand that in context of real power.
Look at it with an open mind, and see the way that you look at the world change.
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a half hour 1969 episode of "Firing Line" with William Buckley, Jr. discussing various Cold War issues, a 16-minute WGBH interview from 1986 with Dr. Chomsky and the President of Boston University, John Silber, and a half-hour debate with Michel Foucault from 1971, ,the 2007 41-minute interview by the film makers of Dr. Chomsky on the relevance of the film and an update of its subject matter, including East Timor; and the hour and a half 2005 Harvard University debate between the pro-Israeli celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Chomsky, who argues for a humanizing, fairer view of Palestinians.
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