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Topic: great interview with unca Noam Chomsky on the democratic illusion!
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paxamillion
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posted 28 March 2003 11:05 AM
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and rabble.ca is PART of it! We are all dupes!
The Revised Geneva Convention.... Article 1: *PLONK* Article 2: See Article 1.
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'lance
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posted 28 March 2003 04:36 PM
Agreed. But I confess I'm no great fan of Chomsky's, regardlessly.Edited to add: I was waiting for some mention in that article of the "35,000 square foot house/four yachts/army of Nubian concubines" rumour, but was disappointed. [ 28 March 2003: Message edited by: 'lance ]
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DrConway
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posted 28 March 2003 10:02 PM
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I was waiting for some mention in that article of the "35,000 square foot house/four yachts/army of Nubian concubines" rumour, but was disappointed.
Is this like the Michael Moore $500 a night and ordering around the help staff allegation? Is there even any substantiated proof that Noam Chomsky bought himself a house that could garage four of my LTDs, or of the Michael Moore thing? It's amazing the levels of character assassination the right wing will go to, and they have shown themselves in the past to be very unconcerned with the facts when it makes a good drive-by smear job.
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jeff house
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posted 31 March 2003 05:42 PM
Geneva's post represents a kind of propaganda which is actually discussed in the linked article: quote:
We saw that journalists like Marr are intelligent, lucid and rational, but only within parameters that preclude a deeper understanding of what is really happening in the world. We saw how the illusion of media diversity is maintained by presenting superficial and trivialized versions of the true dissident position.
Chomsky's analysis of the illusion of media diversity is an utterly important one; for me, anyone who dismisses it as silly is saying more about himself or herself than about Chomsky. Over the past fifty years, there has been a huge concentration of media in the hands of fewer and fewer multinational corporations; these give us basically the same semi-intelligent
analysis of everything, with little room for debate. In those cases in which I have been aware of detailed information about political events, I have been disappointed by the media spin, which seems always to suppose that authority has a valuable point to make. Often in fact, authority lies, or covers up, or twists the truth. Example: does anyone remember the independent review of 9-11 which the US government promised? That review was generated by information that George Bush had been made aware that the World Trade Centre might be attacked by comandeered airliners. While obviously it is silly to suggest a conspiracy, I myself think that Bush was negligent in his duties as President; he may have poo-pooed the report, or cast it aside as unreliable. The point is, however, that we should KNOW how he responded to that report. We don't, and no one is pushing it. I think Chomsky has produced the best analysis as to why this is so.
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Email this thread to someone!
choice of words nonetheless.
