ELI5: Manufacturing Consent
Links
- Noam Chomsky on Manufacturing Consent - YouTube
- Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine - YouTube
Notes
The public likes to think they have control over their government and desires but in reality the media acts as a tool to manufacture the atitudes of the public.
Examples are Listerine inventing Halitosis, a medical condition where someone has bad breath but other examples are much more sinister like the Vietnam War.