Media control (Record no. 3500)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 978-1583225363
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 303.375CHO
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chomsky, Noam.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Media control
Remainder of title the spectacular achievements of propaganda
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. seven stories press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1997
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 58 p. ; 17 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Noam Chomsky?s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy?one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson?s Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmann?s theory of "spectator democracy," in which the public is seen as a "bewildered herd" that needs to be directed, not empowered; and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on "controlling the public mind," and not on informing it. Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Propaganda.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam 01/17/2025   303.375CHO 003539 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book