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Books : Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
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Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by: Noam Chomsky List Price: £6.99 Childrens Toy Shop Price: £5.49 You Save: £1.50 (21%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 303.3 EAN: 9781583225363 ISBN: 1583225366 Label: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Manufacturer: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 104 Publication Date: September 01, 2002 Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Studio: Seven Stories Press,U.S. Sales Rank: 4016 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - A really excellent short expositionUnlike many of Chomsky's other political books this one is somewhat easier to read and the points it gets across are lucidly put It is also short and would make an excellent introduction to his work and ideas Rating:  - Nothing much surprising in this bookOverall an interesting little book, but the topic is much too complex to adequately cover in such a small book/pamphlet. In my opinion it is also lacking examples from Nazi Germany, which would much better highlight the achievements of propaganda in media. Also, from a European perspective, where there are much broader and more independent sources of news reporting, US propaganda in media form is pretty much "old news". Rating: - ChomskyThis is a great place to start if you're new to Chomsky and political books. It is one of his most accessible books, with a lots of varied information to whet your appetite. You are left with a feeling of shock, but also a desire to go out and learn more, which this book points you in the right direction of. Well worth a read. Rating: - How is Internet going to impact the Media Control? This is another book from Chomsky that makes you look at the American political life from a critical point of view. He has a certain style in writing his books; he makes an hypothesis and builds the book around it. The hypothesis of this book is that American democracy developed towards a system (which he calls "spectator democracy") during early 20th century in which there is an elite group that basically "figure things out" for the rest, i.e. "bewildered herd". For this system to work, the elite group engineer others' opinions by using propaganda or in other words by using public relations. As you would guess, once the elite group recognize the power they have, they start abusing the system for their own benefit but not for that of the public ... Read More: Rating: - The bewildered herd must be tamedNoam Chomsky explains perfectly how propaganda spectacularly achieved to turn `real' democracy, where the public participates meaningfully in state affairs, into `spectator' democracy, where the public is occasionally allowed to elect one or another member of a specialized class. Spectator democracy is based on the assumption that the stupid masses (`the bewildered herd') are too dump and incompetent to really understand their own interests. Only a small elite, the decision makers, can understand the common interest. The bewildered herd must be tamed by, among other means, propaganda. But who benefits? How get the decision makers into their position? The answer is very simple: by serving people with real power, by defending the ... Read More: |
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