After watching the film, I still felt to some extend not fully convinced by Chomsky's counterintuitive theory. There have been theorists and scholars alike who had over the years countered or dismissed his theory.For example: Journalist Tom Wolfe. Yet a question to ponder about albeit these arguments is that if all news media were not owned by the elites but by say, unions or religious factions, would the contents and agendas be skewed towards their interests? If media Corporations are merely also just special interest groups as those mentioned, whom had even spent enormous amount of money on their media assets, it doesn't seem all that surprising that they would skew their coverage to see to fulfilling their interest and political influence.
This film proved to be as persuasive academically as it is in reality. By combining interviews, lectures and illustrations with graphic pictures and footages, it had in many ways sized up Chomsky's argument. Eg. The interviews and the excruciating video images of East Timor, Indonesia.
As good and thought provoking as the film may be, Manufacturing Consent was not balanced or objective in challenging Chomsky's ideas(Which might just defeat its purpose to skew it in the way he wanted it to be). Therefore, I hope this will allow gaps for other films or books to revisit his theories and give a different look into his models. Overall, I enjoyed the film tremendously and would recommend anyone interested in media to watch this film with an open mind.
This film proved to be as persuasive academically as it is in reality. By combining interviews, lectures and illustrations with graphic pictures and footages, it had in many ways sized up Chomsky's argument. Eg. The interviews and the excruciating video images of East Timor, Indonesia.
As good and thought provoking as the film may be, Manufacturing Consent was not balanced or objective in challenging Chomsky's ideas(Which might just defeat its purpose to skew it in the way he wanted it to be). Therefore, I hope this will allow gaps for other films or books to revisit his theories and give a different look into his models. Overall, I enjoyed the film tremendously and would recommend anyone interested in media to watch this film with an open mind.