The film highlights Noam Chomsky, a renowned linguist and political critic, as he exposes the collaboration between government and media to create a propaganda machine that shapes public opinion. The documentary examines this phenomenon through the lens of two significant events: the widespread coverage of the Khmer Rouge's atrocities in Cambodia and the suppression of news about the US-backed Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
The biographical drama explores the life and work of a renowned American linguist and political critic, who sounded the alarm about the insidious influence of corporate media in shaping public opinion and perpetuating propaganda in modern society.