Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Without trying to offend the journalists I was wondering... Has anyone here seen the documentary film about Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent"? I think it addresses fairly well the institutional biases which Jim is alluding to. The example which Chomsky trots out over and over is the number of column inches which the New York Times devoted to the stories in Cambodia and in East Timor. The ratio was something like 100:1 (in any case, a very large number). Well, I thought I would throw that out for discussion, since I found the documentary to be really interesting. He also casts barbs at a few other institutions, not just the press. My favorite quote was from Chomsky, who said something like "professional team sports are training in irrational jingoism". When you think about, say, soccer hooligans, he's not far off. Byron.