num_pages: 432
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: Alexander Cockburn, Irving Howe, Norman Podhoretz, Phyllis Schlafly, A.J.P. Taylor, George Will, John Dewey, Abraham Foxman, Michael Walzer, Holly Sklar, Andrew Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens, William Blum, Marie Colvin, Woodrow Wilson, Hendrik Hertzberg, Paul Berman, Fred Barnes, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Thomas Friedman, Marty Peretz, Yasser Arafat, Joe Klein, Elie Wiesel, Bob Woodward, Norman Finkelstein, Jimmy Carter, Walter Lippmann, Charles Glass, José Napoleón Duarte, Winston Churchill, Pol Pot, Wolf Blitzer, Ronald Reagan, David Corn, William Safire, Norman Stone, Charles Krauthammer, Joseph Lelyveld, Stephen Kinzer, Benny Morris, Edward Said
genres: Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Cultural Studies, Economics, Sociology, History, Society
ratings_count: 1452
publisher: South End Press (Boston)