media control the spectacular achievements of propaganda

Terror has been drilled into our imaginations on a daily basis since 9/11.

“Terrorism” is the most important tool used in the US government’s propaganda machine. If it is not dealt with immediately, the Middle East will be beyond saving therefore, we must act now to crush the enemy. The Islamic State, for example, is characterized in the media as a cancerous cell about to inflict a deadly disease on humanity. According to him, the enemies of America are painted as “disruptive and causing trouble and breaking harmony and violating Americanism.” This propaganda has portrayed Muslims as barbaric and Islamic political entities as terrorist groups. Images and videos of beheadings and other extreme acts of violence by the Islamic State, in particular, are used to “elicit jingoist fanaticism.” In reaction, American citizens behave as “spectators,” who sit back and watch these events unfold without questioning their validity.Ĭhomsky’s thesis builds off the idea that the US government manufactures consent by using propaganda as a tool to control the public mind. Since 9/11, the US government has fed Americans propaganda that portrays Muslims as “boogeymen,” a term used to create “wartime hysteria,” as Chomsky calls it.

Although first published in 1991, Chomsky’s book remains timeless and pertinent. Noam Chomsky’s book Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (published by Seven Stories). What role does the media play in contemporary politics? This question is at the heart of Dr.

Media control the spectacular achievements of propaganda