Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
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Three, two, one, take two.
Good morning.
Welcome to Erin Mills town centre.
Home of the world's largest, permanent,
point-of-purchase video wall installation.
My name is Kelvin Flook
and I'm your video host all day here at EMTV.
I want to take this opportunity to extend
a special and warm welcome
to the film crew from Necessary Illusions.
We've got an excellent line-up
of television programming today,
so... let's get on with it.
So, how long have they been working
on this documentary?
Gosh, they've been working on it
I don't know how long.
Every country I show up, they're always there.
They're in England, they're in Japan.
All over the place.
Jesus.
They must have 500 hours of tape.
Bet they put together a really doozy
when they're done, huh?
I can't imagine who's going to want
to hear somebody talk for an hour.
But I guess they know what they're doing.
So, where are you all from?
Florida.
- Florida?
Yeah, Gulf Coast.
You all talk like in chorus.
We're making a film about Noam Chomsky.
Does anybody know who Noam Chomsky is?
No!
Good aternoon and welcome
to Wyoming Talks.
My guest today is well-known intellectual
Noam Chomsky.
Thank you for being on our programme today.
Very glad to be here.
I know probably the main purpose for your trip
to Wyoming
is to discuss thought control
in a democratic society.
Now, all right, say I'm just Jane USA.
And I say, "Well, gee, this is a democratic
society, what do you mean - thought control?"
"I make up my own mind.
I create my own destiny".
What would you say to her?
Well, I would suggest that Jane take
a close look at the way the media operate,
the way the public relations industry operates.
The extensive thinking that's been going on
for a long, long period,
about the necessity for finding ways
to marginalise and control the public
in a democratic society.
But particularly to look at the evidence
that's been accumulated,
about the way the major media,
The agenda-setting media,
I mean, the national press,
and the television and so on,
the way that they shape and control
the kinds of opinions that appear.
The kinds of information that comes through,
the sources to which they go.
I think Jane will find some very surprising things
about the democratic system.
I'd like to welcome all of you
to this lecture today.
Several years ago,
Professor Chomsky was described
in The New York Times Book Review
as follows:
"Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty
and influence of this thought, Noam Chomsky is
arguably the most important intellectual alive."
Professor Noam Chomsky.
I gather there are some people
behind that blackness there.
But if I don't look you in the eye, it's because
I don't see you, all I see is the blackness.
Perhaps I ought to begin
by reporting something that's never read.
The line about "arguably the most important
intellectual in the world," and so on
comes from a publisher's blurb
and you got to watch those.
If you go back to the original,
you'll find that that sentence is actually there.
This is in The New York Times.
But the next sentence is,
"Since that's the case, how can he write such
terrible things about American foreign policy?"
They never quote that part.
If it wasn't for that second sentence, I'd begin
to think that I'm doing something wrong.
And I'm not joking about that.
It's true that the Emperor doesn't have
any clothes but he doesn't like to be told it.
The Emperor's lap dogs, like The New York
Times, will not enjoy the experience if you do.
Good evening. I'm Bill Moyers.
What's more dangerous:
The big stick of the big lie?
Governments have used both
against their own people.
Tonight I'll be talking with a man
who has been thinking about
how we can see the developing lie.
He says that propaganda is to democracy
what violence is to a dictatorship.
But he hasn't lost faith in the power of
common people to speak up for the truth.
You have said that we live
entangled in webs of endless deceit,
that we live in a highly indoctrinated society,
where elementary truths are easily buried.
Elementary truths such as...
Such as the fact
that we invaded South Vietnam.
Or that we're standing in the way of significant,
and have for years,
of significant moves towards arms negotiation.
Or the fact that the military system
is to a substantial extent,
not totally, but to a substantial extent,
a mechanism by which the general population
is compelled to provide a subsidy
to high-technology industry.
Since they're not going to do it if you ask them
to, you have to deceive them into doing it.
There are many truths like that.
We don't face them.
Do you believe in common sense?
Absolutely.
I believe in Cartesian common sense.
I think people have the capacities to see
through the deceit in which they're ensnared.
But you got to make the effort.
It seems a little incongruous
to hear a man from the ivory tower
of Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
a scholar... a distinguished linguistics scholar,
talk about common people
with such appreciation.
I think scholarship, at least the field I work in,
has the opposite consequences.
My own studies in language and human
cognition demonstrate to me, at least,
what remarkable creativity
ordinary people have.
The very fact that people talk to one another
just in a normal way, nothing particularly fancy,
reflects deep-seated features
of human creativity,
which separate human beings
from any other biological system we know.
Tonight, scientists talk to the animals.
But are they talking back?
The Journal with Barbara Frum
and Mary Lou Finlay.
Communicating with animals
is a serious scientific pursuit.
This is Nim Chimpsky.
Nim, jokingly named ater
the great linguist Noam Chomsky,
was the great hope of animal communication
in the 1970s.
For four years Pettito and others coached him
in sign language,
but in the end they decided it was a lost cause.
Nim could ask for things, but not much more.
I would have loved
to have a conversation with Nim
and understand how he looked at the universe.
He failed to communicate that information to
me, and we gave him every opportunity.
Noam Chomsky,
theorist of language and political activist,
has had an extraordinary career.
I can think of none like it in recent American
history and few anywhere any time.
He has literally transformed
the subject of linguistics.
He also has become one of the most consistent
critics of power politics in all its protean guises.
Scholar and propagandist, his two careers
apparently reinforce each other.
In 1957, he published his Syntactic Structures,
which began what has frequently been called
the Chomskyan Revolution in Linguistics.
Like a latter-day Copernicus,
Chomsky proposed a radically new way
of looking at the theory of grammar.
Chomsky worked out the formal rules
of the universal grammar
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