@deanduncan63Saw #ManufacturingConsentNoamChomskyandtheMedia. Formidable, challenging, blisteringly confrontational; bracing, inspiring— …
… altogether electrifying. One of the most important, most urgent, most exciting & entertaining movies I’ve ever seen.
#ManufacturingConsent. Much of our conversation about the media, whether technophilic or sky-is-falling, is mere bromide, mere platitude …
… This 3 hr. doc won’t have any of that. Rather than giving us received wisdom, or the superficial concision of so much broadcast journalism …
… it opts for duration, the thorough consultation of multiple sources, the thorough exploration of complex & compounded ideas. In so doing …
… it advocates & then actually demonstrates the ways of true critical thinking, intellectual self-reliance, participatory & pluralistic democracy.
#ManufacturingConsent. Shows, proves that nothing in film is so compelling as smart people, talking.