Original sentence: Author and historian Victor Davis Hanson of the conservative Hoover Institution disagrees with Chomsky and Herman's theories.Critics of Hanson's thesis argue that Chomsky has never claimed to possess a superior intellect, but has always insisted he has merely maintained a naive, child-like outlook, unspoiled by ideology.He sees the idea of "Manufacturing Consent" as a misapplication of the Marxist idea of "false consciousness", (as in Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man).This theory proposes that the masses are so manipulated they have neither the perspective nor intellect to see beyond the propaganda, and so require "superior intellects" to point out the real truth
Edited sentence: Critics of Chomsky and Herman's mass media analysis, including author and historian Victor Davis Hanson of the conservative Hoover Institution strongly disagree with Chomsky and Herman's theories.Supporters argue that Chomsky has never claimed to possess a superior intellect; on the contrary, he has always insisted that he has maintained a naive, child-like outlook, unspoiled by ideology.They also focus on the idea that Chomsky and Herman are so far out of the American mainstream political spectrum that they seek to explain their marginalization as a “conspiracy of the elite” to suppress their criticisms, instead of the idea that their philosophy is unacceptable in the mainstream, and therefore ignored by the mainstream population.They see the idea of "Manufacturing Consent" as a misapplication of the Marxist idea of "false consciousness", (as in Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man), where the masses have been so manipulated that they have neither the perspective or intellect to see beyond the propaganda and require "superior intellects" like Chomsky's to point out to them the real truth