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# Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Want to know what the intent of the media and corporations truly is?
  

*by F***H on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 19, 2012*

If you've long perceived that the news programs that glow from the corporately empowered tabernacles from the mouths of the disembodied (E-band) spirits that you invite into your living rooms are exceptionally contrived and manipulative in their very selective content, their interviews biased to promote the perception that all is well (at least for the E-band executive conducting the interview and his or her wealthy subject), and their aggressive efforts to assert that America isn't a concept that, in terms of its original intent of individual democracy and enforceable legal rights, died at roughly the same time that railroads arose, produced massive wealth for very few, and managed to get the Supreme Court of the day to declare them to have all the legal rights of individuals, then you might want to read this book and gain some insight into how corporate power is manifested in the news media.  This may sound like a dark perspective, but you may rest assured that the author of this book, consistent with his own propaganda model of the mass media, and those who are given access to it, is too often strangely chipper in his perspectives on the topic, so fear not.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good book by an important thinker
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2014*

Noam Chomsky is an important linguistic theorists and social writer. In this book Chomsky looks at how elites maintain political power through propaganda that distorts and confuses major issues. The first 130 or so pages are originally based on a series of lectures given on the Canadian Broadcasting System, so the style is engaging and easy to follow. He follows this up with 220 or so pages of appendices that address criticisms of his original talks. This detracts a little for the books overall coherence.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Noam Chomsky
  

*by B***G on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2010*

Brilliant and insightful.  I am a conservative rightwing voter but Professor Chomsky insight into power and the control of and by the media is truly frightening.  Don't believe what you are told by the media.  Do be fooled by the propaganda machine.  Everyone should read his books regardless of your political or religious views.  Yes, I am still a conservative rightwing voter but much better informed and aware.

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