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Product:	Necessary Illusions - Noam Chomsky
Date:	24/07/00 (94 review reads)
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Advantages: Could change the way you view the world.

Disadvantages: Could have been longer.

Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies, Noam Chomsky

This book is better written than Chomsky's more famous collaboration *Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media* but it's still far too full of jargon. Despite this, it presented its arguments clearly, entertainingly (I enjoyed reading this book a lot, despite the depressing pictures it painted), and pretty much irrefutably, as far as I could judge. Reading first *Manufacturing Consent* and then this book may be as big an education for yolu as it has been for me: I see, or think I see, what goes on in the world much more clearly. *Manufacturing Consent* proposed a theory of how the media work on behalf of a tiny political and economic élite and tested it by examining American policy in Indo-China; *Necessary Illusions* tests the theory on American policy in Central America and examines the support given by the American media to this, as well as on Israeli policy towards its Arab neighbours, which, despite being fascist in many important respects, receives very little negative attention in the American media.

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