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Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine | The Listening Post

A short Al Jazeera animation narrated by Amy Goodman presenting Noam Chomsky's five filters of the mass media: ownership, advertising, media elite sourcing, flak and a common enemy. It is part of the MediaTheorised series.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a quick, accessible introduction to the propaganda model from Manufacturing Consent.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Al Jazeera English
Topic
media propaganda model
Format
explainer
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Manufacturing Consent (there's a documentary form of it too) changed my entire outlook on media. Highly recommend. Short vid based on it: [VIDEO]

    tehjoker on Hacker News · 2020-12
    In CIA vs. Wikileaks [video]

  • [LINK] For those that don't like to read there's a brief animated YouTube introduction voiced by Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!": [VIDEO] This theory, backed by enormous volumes of evidence and case studies, is very much worth a read. It explains how propaganda is instituted …

    tehjoker on Hacker News · 2020-05
    In A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not going quietly

  • Five filters. One big media theory. Consent is being manufactured around you all the time. Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine [VIDEO]

    jhabdas on Hacker News · 2021-06
    In Types of propaganda, propaganda techniques, and propaganda strategies (2017)

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