![]() ![]() ![]() In a ' democratic' system, they can then be permitted, even encouraged, to ratify the decisions made by their betters in periodic elections. Ideally, each person should be alone in front of the TV screen watching sports, soap operas, or comedies, deprived of organizational structures that permit individuals lacking resources to discover what they think and believe in interaction with others, to formulate their own concerns and programs, and to act to realize them.' ( Chomsky, 1991 They must be kept that way, diverted with emotionally potent oversimplifications, marginalized, and isolated. One of its targets is the stupid and ignorant masses. 'A properly functioning system of indoctrination has a variety of tasks, some rather delicate. ![]() media primarily but also media in other societies: ![]() Specific cases are illustrated in detail, using the U.S. 'Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state" (Media Control). must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control: In the late 1980s, Noam Chomsky delved into the nature of the media in a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force ( as in totalitarian societies ),and henceforth. ![]()
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