Manufacturing Consent

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) is a documentary film
with a lengthy, detailed look at the political beliefs of celebrated intellectual American
linguist/ political dissident Noam Chomsky and his warning about corporate medias role in
modern propaganda. It illustrates his message of how government and big media
businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate
the opinions of the United States populous. The key example for this analysis is the
simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge
regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion
and subjugation of East Timor.

Independent Media in a Time of War

Independent Media in a Time of War is a crucial, influential, and timely lecture which
speaks about the corporate media's coverage of the 2003 Iraq. Amy Goodman, an
independent journalist and host of the popular radio show Democracy Now, discusses the
way that the U.S. media downplayed civilian causalities and glorified military combat and
she also argued that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. At the core of her lecture is a
deep commitment to the ethics of journalism. This is a contemptuous critique and a call to
action for the independent media and their crucial responsibility to go where the silence is to
represent the diverse voice of people engaged in dissent.

The Century of the Self

The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the
growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States and how those in
power have used Freuds theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass
democracy. The documentary describes the impact of Freud's theories on the perception of
the human mind, and the ways public relations agencies and politicians have used this
during the last 100 years for their engineering of consent. Lastly, it tackles questions about
the roots and methods of modern consumerism, representative democracy and its
implications.