Noam chomsky and manufacturing consent.

1. Noam Chomsky
By Haitian Qu
1st December 2015

2. Who is Noam Chomsky?
• An American linguist, philosopher and
cognitive scientist.
• A Social justice activist.
• A well-known foreign policy activist.

3. Manufacturing
Consent
• Consent
To give assent or permission(to do
something); agree; accede（Patrick)
• Political economy
Political economy influence wealth
distribution

4. How make the
manufacturing consent?
Propaganda Model
The five general ‘filter’ can be presented
1. Ownership
2. Medium’s funding sources
3. Sourcing mass media news
4. Flak
5. The ideology of Anti-communism

5. Concentration of media ownership
Undesirable consequences:
• Commercial driven,media is primarily loyal to
sponsors
• Market competition is absent
• 23 corporation own and control over 50% the
business in each medium.
• A virtual monopoly

6. CNN Effect
• The Cable News Network is American television
channel.
• A major impact on the conduct of ‘states foreign
policy’ in the late cold war（Baker，2001).
• Emergence of studies on CNN addressing policy
forcing effect on humanitarian decisions and new
approaches to foreign policymaking (Gilboa, 29).

7. References
• Edward S. H., Chomsky, N. (2008) Manufacturing consent [electronic resource] : the
political economy of the mass media. Ebrary [Online]. Available at: http://ntu-
primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=NTU_VU4&s
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ccessed: 29th November 2015).
• Patrick Hanks (unknown) consent, Available
at:http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/consent (Accessed: 29th November
2015).
• Robinson, P. (1999) 'The CNN effect: can the news media drive foreign
policy?', Review of International Studies, 25(02), pp. 301-309 [Online].
Available
at:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=33712&jid=
RIS&volumeId=25&issueId=02&aid=33711&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&s
ocietyETOCSession=(Accessed: 30th November 2015).
• Gilboa,E. (2005) 'Global Television News and Foreign Policy: Debating the
CNN Effect',International Studies Perspectives, 6(3), pp. 325-341 [Online].
Available at:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1528-
3577.2005.00211.x/abstract?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustom
isedMessage= (Accessed: 30th November 2015).
• Baker, C. E. (2001) “Implications of Rival Visions of Electoral Campaigns” in
W.L. Bennett and R.M. Entman (ed) Mediated Politics – Communication in the
Future of Democracy, Cambridge University Press, p. 342-62

8. Any question?