Noam Chomsky: Propaganda Model & the Political Economy of the Mass Media – PART 2
The following video presents the Question & Answer session followed by a historical lecture held by Prof. Noam Chomsky at the University of Wisconsin on the evening of March 15, 1989. In this speech, Prof. Chomsky introduced the Propaganda Model and explained how propaganda and systemic biases function in mass media by providing numerous examples from their coverage on foreign affairs. Our volunteers translated the lecture as well as the Q&A session into the German language. Please donate today so that we can translate all of Prof. Noam Chomsky’s lectures as well archive them digitally into multiple languages by clicking here.
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Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, anarchist, linguist, author and institute professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he’s taught for more than half a century.
Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his latest being “Because We Say So“. Chomsky has been a highly influential academic figure throughout his career, and was cited within the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. His work has influenced a wide range of domains, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science, logic, mathematics, music theory and analysis, psychology and immunology.
Chomsky also developed the propaganda model of media criticism with Edward S. Herman which they presented in their book “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media“. Chomsky remains a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, neoliberal capitalism, and mainstream news media.
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