![]() The 1992 feature film, Manufacturing Consent covers Chomsky’s life- early background and his swoop into global protests from his professorship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-a substantial portion of the film focuses on his dissidence from the mass media’s ideologies, or at least his disaccord with the mass media’s way of communicating information. This, in a way, puts the onus upon us, the readers–the daily consumers of information– to separate the wheat from the chaff. ![]() In this post-truth era, pervaded by multiple narratives that are mostly fabricated, censored, sponsored, or even ideologically indoctrinated, it is easy to cherry-pick information and arrive at conclusions based on our subjective interests. The documentary proves to be a relevant watch, indicative of the tyrannical times we live in where the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press is compromised and countered with draconian laws and incarceration. ![]() ![]() As we awake to face the consequences of the fanaticism that has arrived at our doors here in India through portals like the news media, filled with dogmatism of every kind: political, religious, and ideological, where the journalists are coerced to toe the government’s line and suppress the truth, one is jolted to look back to the documentary, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media directed by Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick. ![]()
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