The book ‘Manufacturing Consent’ by Noam Chomsky plays an integral role at criticising the work of the mass media as far as informing, amusing, entertaining and mobilising the general populace on several factors that occur in the environment. The mass media such as the television and radio stations are vital in the day to day information in a given vicinity. Chomsky underlines their role in perpetuating lies as well as using their capability to sway the public domain into believing the validity of their news which he viewed as somewhat inflated and tailored to meet specific expectations. From the contents of the book, I have learnt that the mass media is a reliable tool for either covering or exposing some of the occurrences as the mass media proves to be a leading propagandist (Chomsky 63). In reading the book, I looked up to forty-four words. Nevertheless, I agree with Noam Chomsky’s views concerning the mass media as underlined by the fact that the national media houses undertake activities to only serve a given group of the elite in the society as compared to their private counterparts. The argument brought forth concerning the freedom and preferences of both the national and the individual mass media houses is a blatant truth evident in the world today.
Although Chomsky’s book relates to more than thirty-five years ago, the content of the book can be modernised by taking into consideration certain aspects such as the media reporting about the police brutality. The mass media downplayed the extent of police brutality yet in a real sense it’s the opposite (Cassandra). The problems outlined by Chomsky have worsened given the large platform employed by the mass media in the world today as far as reaching out to the people is concerned.
Works Cited
Cassandra. "Police Brutality: Through The Media." 9 December 2015. Hastac.
Document. 12 January 2018.
Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent. New York: Pantheon Publishers, 1988. Document.
