Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

01:00:00 who would buy it.

01:19:44 and we were quite surprised that given the level of American involvement

01:23:37 whereas the original was an atrocity story.

01:27:28 Ask the people who are involved in...

01:31:57 the editor back at the studio puts the two pieces of film together

01:35:18 of the US-supported, ongoing atrocities in Timor.

01:38:45 and what the media tell us?

01:41:56 but most dissenters do not get much of a hearing in this medium.

01:45:35 It shows that their conception of a spectrum of opinion is ridiculously narrow

01:49:01 The best political leaders are the ones who are lazy and corrupt.

01:52:23 that's, you know, on an order of magnitude beyond anybody else in the world.

01:55:42 has been firing questions at our chief executive for almost 40 years.

01:59:02 Vilification is a wonderful technique.

02:02:31 "a relatively apolitical sort of liberal".

02:05:39 There's two positions you can have on freedom of speech. You can decide which you want.

02:09:20 You know, they're working in their communities, in their workplace or wherever they are.

02:12:46 First of all, I wouldn't tell you that

02:16:15 but in terms of empowerment

02:19:54 The end result is that you do have access to resources

02:23:19 Remember, these movements of the '60s

02:26:56 The people of the world agitate for free expression and free thought

02:30:50 in the way humans conceive of themselves

02:34:37 require rational social planning in the interests of the community as a whole.

17:19:07 it was a gentle land of peaceful, smiling people