Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Manufacturing Consent Noam Chomsky and the Media 1992 This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of Americas 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