“Manufacturing Consent” http://mindfood.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/manufacturing-consent/ http://mindfood.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/manufacturing-consent/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:38:02 +0000 taktic http://mindfood.wordpress.com/?p=83 ]]>

This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America’s leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.

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]]> http://mindfood.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/manufacturing-consent/feed/ 0 taktic “The Century of the Self” by Adam Curtis http://mindfood.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-century-of-the-self-by-adam-curtis/ http://mindfood.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/the-century-of-the-self-by-adam-curtis/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:19:44 +0000 taktic http://mindfood.wordpress.com/?p=82 ]]>

“This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.” – Adam Curtis

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0432232/