Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, and activist who is a professor at MIT. He criticizes U.S. foreign policy and argues that news media can be influenced by biases to favor their sponsors and report in a way that makes them a profit. Chomsky refers to this as "manufacturing consent." He believes there are five filters that shape news reporting: ownership, funding sources, sourcing of information, potential flak or criticism, and ideology like anti-communism.

1. Noam Chomsky ;)
Who is he? What does he say about media? What did he
mean by manufacturing consent? Or filters?

2. Who is he?
• Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, Philosopher, cognitive scientist,
and activist. A professor in Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He strongly
criticises the foreign Policy of the USA stating that they are hypocritical
when they preach freedom and democracy but have states that are
against those two like Chile.

3. Manufacturing consent
• Manufacturing consent – the political economy of the mass media is a book
written by Noam Chomsky and Edward S Herman. This book analyses the news
media and refers to it as business. In it the authors discuss how the news can be
influenced by bias opinions just as any other aspect in the media could and that
they only report things that will make them a profit. By bias they meant that the
news will carefully select what they report and will report in favour of their
sponsors.

4. WhaT ARE THE FIVE FILTERS?
• Chomsky believes that there are five factors that the News take into
account before reporting –
• Ownership of Organisation – people in charge of what gets put on
television.
• Funding sources of Organisation – sponsors etc.
• Sourcing – the news reporters who give them their news
• Flak – a term used to represent criticism given to the Media by the public.
• Anti-communism.

5. • THANKS FOR WATCHING. xD