Interview with Noam Chomsky
Talking Radical Media With Noam Chomsky
Interview by @VWPickard in The Nation
For anyone critical of the media and politics at the turn of the century, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomskys Manufacturing Consent was essential reading. The books propaganda model provided a useful framework for understanding how typical news coverage filters out some types of evidence while emphasizing others, ultimately privileging dominant narratives. One key lesson from this analysis was clear: To change the world, we must first change our media.
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At 92, Chomsky is still leveling sharp critique and astute analysis. In our Zoom conversation, he seamlessly drew from that days New York Times to exemplify various points we were discussing. I was especially struck by his nuanced optimismwhile he saw the same structural pathologies afflicting our commercial news media systems today, he also discerned meaningful progress in news coverage, especially in confronting historical atrocities that mainstream media accounts had ignored or misrepresented in the past.
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