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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Page #7
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- 1992
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It just goes to show that we're a mighty nation,
and we'll be there no matter what comes along.
It's the strongest country in the world,
and you got to be glad to live here.
So, tell me what you feel
about media coverage of the war.
It was good. It got to be a bit much ater a while,
but I guess it was good to know everything.
In Vietnam you didn't know a lot
that was going on,
but here you're pretty much
up to the moment on everything,
so... I guess it was good to be informed.
For the first time,
because of technology, we have the ability
to be live from many locations
around the globe,
an all-news network -
we can spend whatever time is necessary
to bring the viewer
the complete context
of that day's portion of the story.
And by context, I mean the institutional memory
that is critical to understand why and how,
and that's those who are analysts,
and do commentary,
and those who can explain.
Slug that last piece...
...lTN-lsrael Post War.
David Brinkley once said
that you step in front of the camera,
and you get out of news business,
and into show business,
but nonetheless
that should not in any way subtract or obscure
the need for the basic standards
of good journalism.
Hang tight. Let me
give you a lead for Salinger right now, OK?
President Bush
and Prime Minister Major have...
...closed, or have almost rejected...
peace efforts in Saudi Arabia.
The door is being let open.
Rick Salinger is standing by live in Riyad.
- All but closed.
- Yeah. All but closed.
Right.
Accuracy, speed, a fair approach,
honesty and integrity within the reporter
to try and bring the truth,
whatever the truth may be.
Going to war is a serious business.
In a totalitarian society, the dictator just says,
"We're going to war", and everybody marches.
And with this weapon
of human brotherhood in our hands
we are seeing the war for men's minds
not as a battle of truth against lies,
but as a lasting alliance pledged in faith
with all those millions driving forward
to create the true new order-
the world order of the people first,
is, if the political leadership is committed to war
they present reasons, and they've got
a very heavy burden of proof to meet.
Because a war is a very catastrophic affair,
as it's been proved to be.
Now, the role of the media at that point is to...
is to present the relevant background.
For example,
the possibilities of peaceful settlement,
such as what they may be,
have to be presented,
and then to offer a forum... in fact encourage
a forum of debate over this very dread decision
to go to war, and in this case
kill hundreds of thousands of people,
and leave two countries wrecked, and so on.
That never happened.
There was never...
Well, you know, when I say never,
I mean 99.9 per cent of the discussion
excluded the option of a peaceful settlement.
To Washington's Office of War Information
falls one of the most vital and constructive tasks
of this war.
This is a people's war,
and to win it, the people ought to
know as much about it as they can.
This office will do its best to tell the truth,
and nothing but the truth,
both at home and abroad.
The first weapon
in this worldwide strategy of proof
is the great machine of information
represented by the free press
with its powers of moulding public thought,
with all its lifelines
for the exchange of new ideas
between fighting nations
spread across the earth.
Every time Bush would appear
and say, "There will be no negotiations",
there would be a hundred editorials
the next day
lauding him
for going the last mile for diplomacy.
If he said, "You can't reward an aggressor",
instead of cracking up in ridicule
the way people did in civilised sectors
of the world like the whole Third World,
the media still...
"man of fantastic principle", you know.
The invader of Panama, the only head of state
who stands condemned
for aggression in the world,
the guy who was head of the CIA
during the Timor aggression,
he says, "Aggressors can't be rewarded",
The motion picture industry with
its worldwide organisation of newsreel crews,
invaluable for bringing into vivid focus
the background drama
and perspectives of the war.
Mobilised too in this all-out struggle
for men's minds are the radio networks,
with all their experience in the swift reporting
of great occasions and events.
and frontline stronghold
their reporters are sending back
the lessons of new tactics,
new ways of war.
The result was it's a media war.
There's tremendous fakery all along the line.
The UN is finally living up to its mission.
"A wondrous sea change",
The New York Times told us.
The only wondrous sea change
was that for once
the United States didn't veto a Security Council
Resolution against aggression.
People don't want a war
unless you have to have one,
and would've known
you don't have to have one.
The media kept people from knowing that,
and that means we went to war
very much in the manner of a totalitarian state,
thanks to the media subservience.
That's the big story.
Now, remember I'm not talking about
a small radio station in Laramie.
I'm talking about
the national agenda-setting media.
If you run a radio news show in Laramie,
chances are very strong that you pick up
what was in The Times that morning,
and you decide that's the news.
In fact, if you follow the AP wires,
you find it in the aternoon.
They send across tomorrow's front page
of The New York Times.
That's so that everybody knows
what the news is.
The perceptions and perspectives
and so on are sort of transmitted down,
not to the precise detail, but the general picture
is pretty much transmitted elsewhere.
to the Foreign News desk.
The editor is Bob Hanley.
Bob, I suppose you get far more foreign news
than you can possibly use in the paper.
Yes, we do. We get a great deal more
than we can accommodate in a day.
Your job is to weed it out, I suppose.
This is the selection centre, as it were,
and when I have selected it
I pass it across the desk
to one or the other of the sub-editors.
It comes back to me,
and on this chart I design the page.
That is page one and page two.
Fine, Bob. Thank you very much.
- Why do you want to make a film about Media?
- Well...
Such a nice, quiet town.
It's a beautiful town.
We're making a film about the mass media,
so we thought what a good place to come.
Want to know where they got the name?
Maybe you could start
by introducing yourself.
Yes, I'm Bodhon Senkow.
I'm the main street manager and executive
director of the Media Business Authority,
and we are in Media, Delaware County,
in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania.
Media is called "Everybody's hometown".
The motto was developed
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