Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series) 2nd ed. Edition

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Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmann’s theory of "spectator democracy," in which the public is seen as a "bewildered herd" that needs to be directed, not empowered; and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on "controlling the public mind," and not on informing it. Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.

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NOAM CHOMSKY is known throughout the world for his political and philosophical writings as well as for his groundbreaking linguistics work. He has taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1955 and remains one of America's most uncompromising voices of dissent.

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Publisher : Seven Stories Press; 2nd ed. edition (September 3, 2002)
Language : English
Paperback : 112 pages
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zenovice

So, you think the American press doesn't use propaganda?

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2017

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Another thoughtful and insightful book by a recognized master. Dr. Chomsky enumerates all the dangers that result from too few sources having the "voice"/ability to be trusted to inform the masses. This book shows you how Hitler's propaganda assault fooled a large portion of the German people. And those techniques are being used here in America, and have been for quite some time. He lends credence (if not complete proof) to the quote by A. J. Liebling, that - “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” - is the cold, hard truth.

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Mind Blowing

Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2014

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I've always heard of Chomsky but I never quite got around to reading anything he wrote. Then one day 'Media Control' was on sale at Amazon and I gave it a shot. This book is mind-blowing, not just because of what he puts in that I hadn't heard of before but because it forced me to think about the relationship between power and knowledge. Chomsky pulls no punches when discussing the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways that governments control their people and keep groups too fractured to ever truly change the status quo. This book is a good introduction to his ideas and once you read it, you'll want to dive into the rest of his works just like I do. You may think that he's a little extreme sometimes, but much more often you'll find yourself thinking that he makes just a little too much sense.

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W. Quinn

A must read for anyone living in 2018

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2018

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Is there any better time to live than right now to discuss Media manipulation and control? Noam knows what he is talking about and has known for a long time. He understand sociology, thinking, psychology, people, the media, and how everything works together. A must read for today's thinker.

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Kaden Moeller

Required Reading

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018

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Simple, easy to understand, to the point, your average brilliant Chomsky. This book should be required reading for every student of history or social studies. It gives prospective and general understanding to something as complex as mass-media and its relationship and effect on the American people. I would even recommend it to anyone not in America so that they may understand how the American media functions and manipulates the public opinion.

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Bubba

A rambling bunch of BS

Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2020

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I have a son who is studying political science in college. I asked if he had been offered a section on 'propaganda' in any class in high school. 'No.' I started looking for books to provide him with a good understanding of propaganda techniques. Noam is considered an 'intellectual'. This book was clearly written while he was halfway through a bottle of scotch. Simple rambling BS. Wasted money.

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Joshua B. Good

Not a book - transcripts of speeches

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2017

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As usual, Chomskey opens your eyes to how things really work. But the work is a bit thin, since it's not really a book, and fails to account for the proliferation of alternative media, since the speeches were given before the massive growth of independent online news and commentary websites.

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Demelza

The real truth about the truth

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015

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This book should be required reading for all high school seniors. Chomsky tears the lid off the Pandora's Box that is the network news and other "reputable" media sources. Don't believe everything you're told by "official sources" but question what those sources may have to gain. The book is short and to the point. It's NOT a study in paranoia or conspiracy theories but makes the case for critical thinking and proper skepticism.

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FRANCESCO FERZINI

An Appetizer: People with Real Power vs. Masses

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2012

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Propaganda is a form of communication that aims to influence attitudes toward a cause or position. It is primarily aimed to influence an audience.
Fundamentally, it should be a neutral term. However, it grew up with a negative connotation by association with the world wars.
In 1924, Adolf Hitler wrote that "propaganda is a truly terrible weapon in the hands of an expert". While the term propaganda might evoke oceaninc crowds of people rising arms and shouting "Heil Hitler" it is important to note that it was not invented by the Nazis.
The original latin word refers to the biological reproduction of flora and fauna (to propagate, things that must be disseminated), whereas the Papacy coined the phrase propaganda fide.
The Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith is a Congregation of the Roman Curia for the Evangelization of Peoples (Congregation pro Gentium Evangelizatione). In 1622, Pope Gregory XV founded the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (sacra congregatio christiano nomini propaganda) but it was Pope Urban VIII who made it an institution.

Noam Chomsky's Media Control is a little and easy to read book. Loved it. If you get a chance and you would like to know what is the role of the media in contemporary politics (and open your mind to new ways of thinking if you are not familiar with Propaganda) this is a book for you.
Clearly, it is U.S. centric (as pretty much all the books available to market).
It will take one hour of your time (more or less depending on your reading skills) to be read.
Noam Chomsky goes directly to the point and his thinking will not leave the reader disappointed. You might wish to try it as an appetizer. Then, if you want more. There's much more Content worth reading/watching/listening to from Noam's brilliant mind.

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Alex

Chomsky at it again

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2020

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When will he learn? The media is control and control is the media.

Typical Chomsky ... argumentative, reasoned, well written.

Don't bother if you are paranoid and think the world is run by lizards. I'm not saying that you are wrong. but you don't really want more stress in your life, do you?

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spiritus

A more readable alternative to Manufacturing Consent.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 26, 2020

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Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's 1988 book 'Manufacturing Consent' is one of the most influential works of media studies of the modern era. However, as some reviewers have noted the book is somewhat repetitive and a little dry and pedestrian in style. For a much more concise and readable introduction to Chomsky's research into the nature of corporate mass media this book provides an excellent overview of the development of those distorted and unethical mechanisms of social control that constitute 'mainstream media'.

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Dan

Very good. An eye opener.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2011

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The book proved (to me at least) that since WW2 governments have used many of the techniques used by the Nazis in their various campaigns.

Want to understand how illegal wars have been started in the middle east without people even understanding that it was illegal in the first place? Read this book.

Want to remain in the dark about how certain media groups are spoon feeding us all poisonous information that is destroying humanity from the core? Don't read this book, you'd probably find it scary anyway.

Chomsky shows you facts that are provable. It's not about theory.

After reading this book I found myself noticing more and more the devices used to cultivate mass acceptance of a grotesque agenda of the powers that be, which includes theft, betrayal and, not least of all, murder.

If it were up to me, everyone would have access to this information from the day they learnt to read and understand words.

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Mr. D. T. Marchesi

how we are goosed by propaganda

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2010

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In a concise booklet, Chomsky explains how the "unthinkable" (fairly summed up in the widespread post-modern belief that "we" are more human then "they")becomes banal. The dual connection of public relations/advertising and war in the 20th century has produced an extremely sophisticated machine in the hands of governments and, even more shamelessly, the media moguls. Together, these forces have had huge success in distorting hearts and minds so as to produce "spectator democracy" ,a "parade of enemies"and "selective perception" ( titles from the contents list of sections in this 100-page work) Chomsky points out that the first government propaganda operation in 20th century USA was by the Wilson government in 1916, when a commission was set up precisely to encourage war-sentiment among the,till then, largely non-interventionist US public.Since that time, "liberal" or even "left" governments have joined the usual suspects in promoting bellicose feelings at the drop of a hat, as it were.We could imagine ourselves back in the days ( c.1710) of the War of Jenkins's Ear (cf. the recent arrest by Iranians of the British yachtsmen who strayed into territorial waters - presented by the media, including the BBC, as if it verified the "you can't talk to people like that" attitude, a prelude in game theory to the leap into armed conflict)Chomsky's booklet ends with reflections on the latest distortion - it's only "terrorism" if "they" do it to "us", since we are virtually never allowed by the mainstream media or governments to consider the massive evil deeds "we" perpetrate ( see also William Blum's books, and the website medialens) The "special relationship" of the UK to the US means. of course, that British governments will fit in with whatever propaganda the US promotes. It was, one may recall, a little irritating to Mrs Thatcher that Ronnie invaded Grenada, but no more... ( just a few killed in this British colony, and they - dare I say it ?- black)

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Jonah Whale

You probably already know it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2019

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This is less a book than a pamphlet. You'll read it in less than an hour and you'll realise that you already know everything in it, so powerfully have Chomsky's ideas been accepted into intellectual discourse. It could be interesting for students of history interested in perspectives on the events Chomsky uses as examples.

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