Noam Chomsky

Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda, first published in 1993, contains Noam Chomsky's criticism of the American media. The articles are available in parts on the Noam Chomsky Archive.

Manufacturing Consent is een non-fictieboek van Noam Chomsky en Edward S. Herman uit 1988. Centraal hierin staat manipulatie van de massamedia door de Amerikaanse overheid en het grote bedrijfsleven, middels het door de auteurs benoemde propagandamodel.

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 …