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[manlyboy]

Mark Steyn on Chomsky:

[gang ah jee]

[Big_Bird]

I wouldn't scoff too much at "Manufacture of Consent." As an undergrad I took one subject with the journalism dept, and one day in curiosity (and with some scepticism) I asked one of the professers (a guy in his 50s who had previously worked for several promininent papers, including one owned by Murdoch) if as an employee of Murdoch he'd been told what he could and could not write about. He explained that he and his collegues had never been explicitly told...they just knew roughly where the line was drawn. Any reporter who strayed too far across that line could soon find himself no longer employed. Since then, I have heard other journalists mention their need to politically self censor in order to retain their jobs. One retired female journalist in the US is quite outspoken about it. I can't remember her name...Helen something?... She says that for decades she had to self censor as an employee of mainstream media outlets, and that it is only now as an independent that she can write freely - and then in doing so she can only get her work printed in independent papers.

I was also quite fascinated in the run up to the Iraqi war. For example, the claim of Saddam's MWDs was not widely discredited in the mainstream press at that time. Alternative media sources gave very clear repudiations of this claim, using various evidence and souces. Later, quite some time after the war had started, the story broke in the mainstream media that the MWD claim was spurious, not based on good evidence, etc. Much of the evidence against MWD that they quoted I had already read many times long before from alternative sources. I don't believe for a minute that the mainstream press had only just become aware of these sources/contradictory evidence/information. The information and evidence contradicting the MWD claim had been there all along. They had deliberately chosen not to examine/debate it.

At the time of the lead up to the war, it was put to Ruport Murdoch that all his newspapers/TV outlets were pushing the war. He freely admitted that this was so and said something like "anything that will bring the price of oil down to 20 dollars a barrel is a good thing." His vast media empire stretches across the globe and has enormous power in that it can help sway public opinion.

I've also noticed that when I read an article in the English language Israeli papers that makes some concession to the Palestinian point of view, I sometimes see these same articles reprinted in US media - with one interesting feature...they are reprinted word for word - and yet the section putting across something favorable to the Arab's side of the story is largely omitted. Now that is very curious indeed.

[cubanlord]

[cubanlord]

AH! I FOUND IT! HERE IS THE LINK!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGsTmcFxrYo (PART 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1qedUIg7sI&mode=related&search= (PART 2)

[Woland]

[SPINOZA]

I don't have a strong opinion about Chomsky because I'm unfamiliar with him except for his contribution to Logic - the aforementioned Universal Grammar.

However, I've gone off him recently, because I saw a vid on Youtube of him talking about 9/11. His comments showed he hadn't the faintest idea what he was talking about.

[cubanlord]

[gang ah jee]

[cubanlord]

[Ody]

[captain kirk]

Chomsky is the greatest, really. I was reading a history of the 14th Century by another author, a historian, and the self-interest of governments is more clearly seen then.

For example there was the notion of chivalry, as we see in the legendary Kights who rescue damsels in distress. Who fight for good and might is right.

But what happened alot back in the 14th Century was Knights pillaging, looting, raping wherever. Because they were commoners they were fit to plunder. It didn't matter what side they were on. Not part of the upper class = expendable nobodys. This caused serf/peasant uprisings (which, against armoured knights, lancers, bowmen didn't fare well).

Chomsky pokes at the veneer and chips it away revealing the inner workings of self-interest motivating the ruling, upper echelons, the elite, nowadays, when it's harder to see (more discerning public, correspondingly whiter wash).

What he's doing is very brave and risky. He's up there with the Dalai Lama IMO.

[nasigoreng]

if Chomsky's ideas were put into practice in S.Korea, would individuals be able to accumulate enough capital to open English academies and pay native speakers +2.000.000 won/ month?

[ChopChaeJoe]

Getting beyond some arbitrary number of won, what do we really deserve as English teachrs?

Do you feel that you deserve more or less?

I definitely feel that I deserve more.


Probably the girl at McDonalds feels the same way.

We are being screwed. we choose to live with it is all.

[Woland]