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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Nov 06, 1992 | IMDB 7.6

167 min Watch Now

Documentary

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.

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Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Edward S. Herman, William F. Buckley Jr., Peter Jennings, Bill Moyers, Tom Wolfe

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