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Monday, June 9, 2014


 Media Control and State Propaganda: Chomsky Defines The Two Different Conceptions of Democracy2014/4/8
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In this short book, Chomsky criticizes media control in terms of two kinds of democracy. The first one is that ''the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free.'' The other one is that ''the public must be barred from managing their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled.''

Counter-revolutionaries' media want us to be ''spectators'', not participants in action. And they are only allowed to say ''We want you to be our leader.'' The reason is that ''If they try to participate in managing their own affairs, they're just going to cause a trouble.'' And the commonly typical method is that ''Turn their attention to something else. Keep them out of trouble.''

State propaganda means controlling the public mind. And US learned the technics from Nazi. The first US state propaganda campaign was Anti-Wagner Act Campaign in 1935, and the idea is to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers. For example, in 911, Taliban regime had nothing to do with the terrorism, and they asked US for the evidence. As the result, US regime had rejected their request and bombed it. This is also an unknown truth of 911.

US exploits conflicts by double-dealing. Such as Israeli bombing of Tunis in 1985, when US cooperated in the israeli atrocity by failing to inform (disinform) ''its Tunisian ally'' that the bombers were on the way.

So many democratic American intellectuals affected Japanese intellectuals who stand for their own people. Noam Chomsky is the best of the best!
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