The e book Manufacturing Consent (1988) by Noam Chomsky and David S Herman aimed to upend the notion of Western media as a drive for public good. Fairly than serving as a significant verify on energy and a supply of dependable data, they argued, the mass media existed to maintain and defend energy, making media establishments of the ‘free world’ little higher than authorities propaganda channels of dictatorships. Aided by some actually unusual and creative visuals from the filmmaker Pierangelo Pirak, this temporary animation for the Al Jazeera TV programme The Listening Submit describes the 5 media ‘filters’ that, per Chomsky and Herman, in the end decide what’s introduced to the general public as information. A landmark work, Manufacturing Consent has been endlessly debated and reevaluated within the 30-plus years since its launch. Mirrored on in the present day, its arguments increase fascinating questions on how the media has and hasn’t modified because the daybreak of the web age.
