"Manufacturing Consent"

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The paper shows Noam Chomsky's opinion regarding the content of the media. The writer explains that Chomsky feels that the news is actually propaganda and that there are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized. The writer explains Chomsky's belief that America is not a democracy. In summation, the paper explains that we believe what we are casually told is the truth and that news is America's largest manufactured product.

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"Chomsky, of course, is no bearded recluse, furiously scribbling in some loft, and railing against capitalism because he cannot (or does not want to) be a part of it. Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at M.I.T. And his major reasoning is that, in order to cope effectively with the daily media barrage that assaults us- from newspapers to weekly news magazines, to prime time network "magazines" not to mention the brief sound bites on the nightly network news programs- people must undertake "a course of intellectual self defense".

"What does he feel we must defend ourselves against? For one thing the smugness of being American, being the "greatest super power of the world", required to be the world's policeman and moral indicator, sending troops, goods, company executives, and most of all, billions to shore up the good will we require from the rest of the world."

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