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The very concept of manufactured consent seems very much projection on Chomsky's part. Very much, 'they don't agree with me but I know what their real interests

• jdub 1y ago
  It's possible you've missed the entire 20th Century and 21st Century thus far, so an exhaustive list of examples would be impractical, but perhaps take a moment to ponder just a couple: - "yellow cake uranium" - "a land without people for a people without a land"
• dragonwriter 1y ago
  > The very concept of manufactured consent seems very much projection on Chomsky's part Per Chomsky, the co-authored work is more Herman's than his, and anyhow the phrase and concept is from Walter Lipmann, 66 years before Herman and Chomsky's work with the title inspired by it (and 51 years before their first book on the topic.) But, no, neither the idea that deliberate propaganda is a major source of political beliefs or the particular manner and mechanisms by which the US media is involved in delivering that propaganda is "projection". > Very much, 'they don't agree with me but I know what their real interests are so I can speak for them better than they can for themselves' crap Manufacturing Consent doesn't pretend to be an exploration of what the “real interests” of the public are; it can't be misleading "projection" at doing that, because it doesn't do it at all.