Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky

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Synopsis

On this original recording, Chomsky delivers a provocative lecture exemplary of the media analysis that is his signature. Arguing that "propaganda is to democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," Chomsky sketches the triumphs of U.S. propaganda from the Wilson era through the first Bush administration.

Written in the wake of Gulf War I, this insightful lecture touches on the machinations of Bush Sr.'s war propaganda. As such, Media Control is a timely and haunting reminder of propaganda's proven hazard: the repetition of our most nightmarish history.

Professor Noam Chomsky has been declared "arguably the most important intellectual alive" by The New York Times. He is the author of numerous groundbreaking bestsellers on linguistics, foreign policy and media.

Annotation

Beginning with the Creel Commission, the Woodrow Wilson-appointed committee that turned isolationist America into a war-hungry machine, master political analyst Noam Chomsky traces the history of American propaganda. Part of the Open Media Pamphlet Series. Size A. 64 pp. Author tour. Targeted ads.

Biography

Noam Chomsky is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author most recently of Hegemony or Survival, 9/11, and Power and Terror.