description: In his 1988 CBC Massey Lecture, Noam Chomsky inquires into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. media primarily but also media in other societies. Chomsky considers how the media might be democratized (as part of the general problem of developing more democratic institutions) in order to offer citizens broader and more meaningful participation in social and political life.
language: English
title: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
titlecomplete: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
characters: Joseph Lelyveld, Paul Berman, A.J.P. Taylor, Winston Churchill, Alexander Cockburn, Abraham Foxman, Wolf Blitzer, Andrew Sullivan, Walter Lippmann, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Marie Colvin, David Corn, Charles Glass, Marty Peretz, Bob Woodward, William Safire, Hendrik Hertzberg, Holly Sklar, Thomas Friedman, Norman Podhoretz, Elie Wiesel, Pol Pot, John Dewey, George Will, William Blum, Christopher Hitchens, Charles Krauthammer, Norman Finkelstein, Irving Howe, Edward Said, Yasser Arafat, Norman Stone, Stephen Kinzer, Joe Klein, Michael Walzer, Phyllis Schlafly, Ronald Reagan, Fred Barnes, Benny Morris, Jimmy Carter, Woodrow Wilson, José Napoleón Duarte
genres: Political Science, Cultural Studies, Society, Politics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Economics, Psychology, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 1452
publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation