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BBC - The Big Idea with Andrew Marr - Interview with Noam Chomsky
I had this sitting on my hard-drive and noticed this excellent interview had not been uploaded here.. so here you go. This is the interview with that classic moment where, among other things, Andrew Marr grills Chomsky on his theory of the propaganda model of the media and has the following exchange with Chomsky: Marr: How can you know that I'm self-censoring? How can you know that journalists are... Chomsky: I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting. Transcript: http://www.zmag.org/Chomsky/interviews/9602-big-idea.html And long live Chomsky. The man is getting old.. who knows how many more years he has. The man is still going strong at 74 or something. To all those propagandists and right-wing, jingoistic Americans who ridicule and sneer at his ideas just because they would rather believe in comforting lies and fairy-tale motivations about their country and its foreign policy, can anyone really doubt the validity of Chomsky's ideas after these last few years that have blatantly featured the naked display of media and state propaganda, American imperialism and aggression, and the torture-advocating hypocrisy, venality and corruption of the US government that belie almost every supposed core belief in American democratic values and "noble intentions" and the standard doctrine of "good and evil" and "freedom and democracy" that the US government and media peddles to the American public and to the world? Too bad Chomsky has been completely shut out of American mainstream media and political discourse all these years.. because if more Americans had paid attention to his fierce and lone dissenting voice, the US might not be in the venal and corrupt state it is today and would not be stuck in a quagmire of a war sold on blatant lies and propaganda that has more to do with empire, oil, and lust for power than it has anything to do with "The Global War on Terror" (tm). ----- Thanks to Eireaaron for uploading this originally. Duration: 30:17 Data Size: 346.90 MB Bit Rate: 1.60 Mbps Video: DivX 5.0, 640 ?480, 25 fps Audio: MPEG Layer-3 Audio stereo, 44.1 kHz First aired on BBC2 in 1996. Andrew Marr, Reporter/Political Editor BBC, interviews Noam Chomsky about media manipulation and propaganda techniques. This is a VHS rip. The audio hisses a bit but with a few tweaks of an EQ its not noticable. The video is average at best but still pretty good.
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I'll overlook the tit above spreading more NWO propaganda and lies.
Thanks for a great interview. It really is impressive how quick Chomsky are these arguments (I think he's 78 btw). The question and answer you just quoted pretty much sums up the media system in the West (and probably Rest too, although other aspects enter the picture too). And the same phonomenon can serve as the reason why Chomsky isn't featured in the mainstream media, as he clearly should, if we had a free and independent media. If journalists or editors invited him online, allowed him the space to speak or write, they wouldn't be where they currently are. It's just as in any institutional system (such as education). You quickly learn what's smart to say and do, and what's not. You learn what professors want to hear, and what kind of ideas they like. If you counter these ideas, no matter how well you do it, you won't be rewarded with good grades, promotions or better salaries. A very effective way of getting the "right" ideas promoted inside institutions, or other systems of society as for instance the media. Quite simply self-censorship. It's better with people self-censoring automatically/uncontiously than people repressing their own ideas. Then you get the exact questions as the one quoted above. I'm almost shocked every time I see a piece that counters the "allowed" discourse. And less shocked when I see the journalist have gotten out about a piece a year in the important newschannels. (This was the last case I checked, not always this bad)
Thanks for a great interview. It really is impressive how quick Chomsky are these arguments (I think he's 78 btw). The question and answer you just quoted pretty much sums up the media system in the West (and probably Rest too, although other aspects enter the picture too). And the same phonomenon can serve as the reason why Chomsky isn't featured in the mainstream media, as he clearly should, if we had a free and independent media. If journalists or editors invited him online, allowed him the space to speak or write, they wouldn't be where they currently are. It's just as in any institutional system (such as education). You quickly learn what's smart to say and do, and what's not. You learn what professors want to hear, and what kind of ideas they like. If you counter these ideas, no matter how well you do it, you won't be rewarded with good grades, promotions or better salaries. A very effective way of getting the "right" ideas promoted inside institutions, or other systems of society as for instance the media. Quite simply self-censorship. It's better with people self-censoring automatically/uncontiously than people repressing their own ideas. Then you get the exact questions as the one quoted above. I'm almost shocked every time I see a piece that counters the "allowed" discourse. And less shocked when I see the journalist have gotten out about a piece a year in the important newschannels. (This was the last case I checked, not always this bad)
Nov 21 2006, 11:11 CET
Thanks for posting this. I remember watching this when it was first broadcast - it was the thing that triggered a complete change in how I perceive the media and my world outlook. I thought Marr was completely demolished in this and often appeared sheepish. Marr is a curious character, as a BBC senior political editor, he used to appear regularly as a New Labour opinion-former before suddenly 'retiring'. I still wonder why he retired so suddenly: perhaps he was going to be outed as an MI6 stooge or something similar.
Nov 21 2006, 17:11 CET
Part I : http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3632
Part II: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=3633
Part II: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=3633
Nov 28 2006, 03:11 CET
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