NOAM CHOMSKY

The Hindu: The Loneliness Of Noam Chomsky By Arundhati Roy

After September 11, the mainstream media's blatant performance as the U.S Government's propaganda machine has only served to highlight the business of `managing' public opinion. The resultant `mistrust of the mass media' would at best be a political hunch or at worst a loose accusation, if it were not for the relentless and unswerving media analysis of one of the world's greatest minds. And this is only one of the ways in which Noam Chomsky has radically altered our understanding of the society in which we live. Rationally and empirically, he has unmasked the ugly, manipulative, ruthless American universe that exists behind the word 'freedom', says ARUNDHATI ROY, in an essay written as an introduction for the new edition of Noam Chomsky

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