Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda Audiobook (Free)

Noam Chomsky’s backpocket vintage on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one where the open public actively participates, and one where the general public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, ‘propaganda is definitely to democracy as the bludgeon is certainly to a totalitarian state,’ as well as the mass media may be the main vehicle for delivering propaganda in america. From an study of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Percentage ‘been successful, within six about Mass media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda months, in turning a pacifist human population right into a hysterical, war-mongering people,’ to Bush Sr.’s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the media and public relations industries have already been used as propaganda to create public support for likely to battle. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations sector has been inspired by Walter Lippmann’s theory of ‘spectator democracy,’ in which the public sometimes appears like a ‘bewildered herd’ that needs to be directed, not really empowered; and the way the public relations industry in america focuses on ‘controlling the general public brain,’ and not on informing it. Press Control is an important primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.