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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-21-11 09:34 PM
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Apropros Chomsky

"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."

- Noam Chomsky, from Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies


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"The bewildered herd is a problem. We've got to prevent their roar and trampling. We've got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like "Support our troops." You've got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they're properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they're not competent to think. Therefore it's important to distract them and marginalize them."

- Noam Chomsky, from Media Control






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