Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

"Manufacturing Consent" explores the political life and times of the controversial author, linguist and radical philosopher, Noam CHOMSKY. As a boy during the Depression, he worked his uncle's newsstand in Manhattan. Today, he is an outspoken critic of the press. "Manufacturing Consent" focuses on democratic societies where populations not disciplined by force are subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control. Chomsky encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from this "web of deceit" by undertaking a course of "intellectual self-defense." Travelling with him through Canada, Japan, Europe and across the U.S.A., we witness a tireless activist challenging and being confronted by the public and the press.