Manufacturing Consent – Noam Chomsky and the Media

In an energetic fusion of images and ideas, the film explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist and radical philosopher, Noam Chomsky. As a boy during the depression, he worked his uncle’s newsstand in Manhattan. Today, he is an outspoken critic of the press and one of America’s leading dissidents. Highlighting Chomsky’s analysis of the media, Manufacturing Consent focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by force are subject to more subtle forms of ideological control. Shocking examples of media deception, such as the invasion in Timor or the tragedy in Cambodia, permeate Chomsky’s critique of the forces at work behind the daily news. Chomsky encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from this “web of deceit” by undertaking a course of “intellectual self-defence”.