It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People who don't accept that doctrinal system, they may try to survive in the media, but they are unlikely to. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
So take social media; take a look at the way they're used. In a lot of ways they're used constructively; lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have created an important political radio show that balances humor and unreported news. At a time when… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A lot of the people involved in the media are very serious, honest people, and they will tell you, and I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
... the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Rush Limbaugh has answered - it's the rich liberals who own the banks and run the government, and of course run the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The media are a corporate monopoly. They have the same point of view. The two parties are two factions of the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Like most terms of political discourse, socialism has more or less, lost its meaning. Socialism used to mean something. If you go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the US does is the kind of thing I described in Italy in 1948. Case after case like that, not hacking… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image