EDITORIAL PICK: The Propaganda Model & the Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky
11. July 2019
EDITORIAL PICK: The Propaganda Model & the Political Economy of the Mass Media | Noam Chomsky
The following video is a historical lecture held by Prof. Noam Chomsky at the Unversity of Wisconsin on the evening of March 15, 1989. In this talk Prof. Chomsky introduces the propaganda model and exhibits how the mainstream media employs it when covering foreign issues. We translated this speech in into the German language as well. Please donate today so we can translate all historical speeches of Prof. Noam Chomsky and archive them digitally into multiple languages by clicking here.
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VIDEO: The Propaganda Model & Political Economy of the Mass Media | Part I
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ABOUT NOAM CHOMSKY
Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, anarchist, linguist, author. Chomsky joined the University of Arizona in fall 2017, coming from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked since 1955 and was Institute Professor, later Institute Professor emeritus. Chomsky has written more than 100 books, his latest being “Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution“. 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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