It's diversion... The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains; to get them...
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Noam Chomsky:
Then there are other media, too, their role is quite different: it's diversion... The purpose of those media is just to dull people's brains; to get them to watch national football... or get involved in astrology or fundamentalist stuff, just get them away, get them away from things that matter. And for that it's important to reduce their capacity to think.
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in that you must meet the condition of concision
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You've got to say things between two commercials
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or in 600 words
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And that's a very important fact
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Because the beauty of concision
Clip duration: 15 seconds
Views: 184
Timestamp in movie: 00h 29m 52s
Uploaded: 03 April, 2022
Genres: documentary, biography, war
Summary: A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
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