Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

A Primer In Intellectual Self-Defense

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

1992

2h 47min

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Noam Chomsky
Self
Edward S. Herman
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William F. Buckley Jr.
Self (uncredited)
Peter Jennings
Self (uncredited)
Bill Moyers
Self (uncredited)

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