Media Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

— Noam Chomsky

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

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He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.

— Noam Chomsky

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

— Noam Chomsky

All media depend on advertisement to survive.

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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.

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Just media alone is not enough. You have to have organization.

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It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And…

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Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

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There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

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When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

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“media are independent and committed to discovering and reporting the truth, and that they do not merely reflect the world as powerful…

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Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

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A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think…

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People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to.

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You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is…

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That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a…

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The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite…

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Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when…

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So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of…

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Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We…

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I wouldn't say that the efforts of academics to critique the media's messages are "half-hearted." As far as I am aware, the…

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People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators…

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You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -…

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A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think…

— Noam Chomsky

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,…

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...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other…

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If you listen to the talk shows, which are rabid right-wing, and very interesting, an important fact about the United States, they…

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When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they…

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Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go…

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This would be a very good moment to institute a call for imposing the Chemical Weapons Convention on the Middle East. The…

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It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive…

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There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics.…

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My grandchildren are on social media all the time, and they think they have friends. But it's not what I would've called…

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Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the…

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... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a…

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The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in…

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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might…

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The book Manufacturing Consent, which I co-authored with Edward Herman, begins with a description of the structure and institutional setting of the…

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In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich…

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