“There are, by one count, 20,000 more public relations agents working to doctor the news today than there are journalists writing it.”— Noam Chomsky, amazon.comTagged: Media, Media Manipulation, Public Relations
“The technical structure of the media virtually compels adherence to conventional thoughts; nothing else can be expressed between two commercials, or in seven hundred words, without the appearance of absurdity that is difficult to avoid when one is challenging familiar doctrine with no opportunity to…”— Edward Herman, Noam Chomsky, amazon.comTagged: Media, Revolution
“The U.S. media do not function in the manner of the propaganda system of a totalitarian state. Rather, they permit—indeed, encourage—spirited debate, criticism, and dissent, as long as these remain faithfully within the system of presuppositions and principles that constitute an elite consensus, a s…”— Herman Edward, Noam Chomsky, amazon.comTagged: Media, Quiet Power, U.S Media