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Well, unless you’re a very rare person you never saw that book. We- the first- our first book was published in 1974, a book on American foreign policy and the media, in fact, and it was published by a publisher, a textbook publisher, flourishing textbook publisher, which happened to be a subsidiary of Warner Communications Incorporated. That’s actually the title of a recent book that I was co-author of with- my co-author is Edward Herman, and the two of us have been working together for many years. The title for this talk is, you may have noticed, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. But we can draw them together by recalling an event which was not considered important enough to be reported, but which I happen to know about because I was personally involved. Well these two events are- they seem rather remote from one another, and in a sense they are. Now, that also had a lot of publicity, even outside the business pages, and there was concern over the effects of the merger, by increasing media concentration so effectively, the effects on freedom of expression. There was a- what some people are calling, a mega-merger of two media giants - Time Incorporated and Warner Communications Incorporated - each of them huge conglomerates, and putting- coming together they form, apparently, the biggest- the world’s biggest media empire. Second case had to do with an interesting thing that happened here.

And I guess the implication is that if that happened then they could cancel the death sentence. A couple of days ago, you may have noticed, the Prime Minister of Iran suggested a very simple way to resolve the crisis concerning Rushdie, he suggested that what should happen is that all the copies of his book, The Satanic Verses, should simply be burned. The first has to do with the famous Salman Rushdie case. Well, let me begin with two recent events, both of them widely publicized. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Noam Chomsky Delivered at University of Wisconsin – Madison, Ma(transcription courtesy of William Greene)

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