consent was not ours we boarded from the leading public intellectual of the twentieth century walter lippmann is the new art democracy to manufacture consent so that the. ignorant and meddlesome outsiders is for is the population will be passive and acquiescent and will accept the rule of the responsible that people like us and in fact the myth is that the media or independent or several courageous struggling against power and so often true of some of the earth find often very fun reporters course while the media doesn't artist courageous job but within a framework that the term and what to discuss what not to discuss and what we try to demonstrate in the book is that the if you simply look at the institutional structure of the media within a state capitalist society like ours they're performing a pretty much the way you'd expect. we'll get back to the rest of that interview in just a few minutes over the years manufacturing consent has sold millions of copies it's had a profound influence on many accomplished journalists and not just in the u.s. we spoke to three of them the editor in chief

consent was not ours we borrowed it from the leading public intellectual of the twentieth century walter lippmann is the new art in democracy to manufacture consent so that the. ignorant and meddlesome outsiders is for is the population will be passive and acquiescent and will accept the rule of the responsible that people like us and in fact the myth is that the media or independent adversarial caricatures struggling against power and so often true of some of the earth find often very fun reporters course while the media doesn't on a steroid just job but within a framework that the term and what to discuss what not to discuss and what we try to demonstrate in the book is that the if you simply look at the institutional structure of the media within a state capitalist society like ours they're performing a pretty much the way you'd expect. we'll get back to the rest of that interview in just a few minutes over the years manufacturing consent has sold millions of copies it's had a profound influence on many accomplished journalists and not just in the u.s. we spoke to three of them the editor in c

one of them is walter lippmann. dorothy thompson. f scott fitzgerald. who was dorothy thompson?rof. churchwell: she is the hero of my book. was a foreign correspondent in europe during the rise of fascism. was the first american reported to interview hepler. -- hitler. she got kicked out of germany. she came home and had a syndicated column. were the most influential columnists of the day. time magazine said she was the most influential woman in america after eleanor roosevelt. she became the voice of anti-fascism in america. in warning that it could happen in the u.s. brian: who are these people in this picture. prof. churchwell: that is dorothy thompson, her husband, the author sinclair lewis. he wrote the novel it can't happen here. that novel was very influenced by her european circle. the debates in the arguments they were having and the concern over what was happening in europe. he wrote a novel provoked by huey long, the louisiana senator. it's was a vision of what american fascism would look like. a lot of what lewis predicted his trump to a t. brian: let's catch up with

consent was not ours we boarded from the leading public intellectual of the twentieth century walter lippmann is the new art in democracy to manufacture consent so that the. ignorant and meddlesome outsiders is for is the population will be passive and acquiescent and will accept the rule of the responsible by the people like us and in fact the myth is that the media or independent adversarial caricatures struggling against power and so often true of some of the earth find often very fun reporters course while the media doesn't on a steroid just job but within a framework that the term and what to discuss what not to discuss and what we try to demonstrate in the book is that the if you simply look at the institutional structure of the media within a state capitalist society like ours they're performing a pretty much the way you'd expect. we'll get back to the rest of that interview in just a few minutes over the years manufacturing consent has sold millions of copies it's had a profound influence on many accomplished journalists and not just in the u.s. we spoke to three of them the editor in

consent was not ours we borrowed it from the leading public intellectual of the twentieth century walter lippmann is the new art in democracy to manufacture consent so that the. ignorant and meddlesome outsiders is for is the population will be passive and acquiescent and will accept the rule of the responsible people like us and in fact the myth is that the media or independent or several courageous struggling against power and so often true of some of the earth find often very fun reporters course while the media does an artist courageous job but within a framework that determines what to discuss what not to discuss and what we try to demonstrate in the book is that the if you simply look at the institutional structure of the media within a state capitalist society like ours they're performing a pretty much the way you'd expect. we'll get back to the rest of that interview in just a few minutes over the years manufacturing consent has sold millions of copies it's had a profound influence on many accomplished journalists and not just in the u.s. we spoke to three of them the editor in chief of t