Noam Chomsky: Social media is undermining democracy

(Salon) - One of the most ludicrousand debunkedclaims of the far right is that the mainstream media in the United States has an inherent liberal/progressive bias. But Noam Chomsky tore that claim apart in his 1988 book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" (which he co-wrote with the late economist/media scholar Edward S. Herman). The real media bias Chomsky stressed was a corporate bias dictated by advertising and soundbites. And 30 years later the 90-year-old Chomsky revisited his book during a recent interview with Al Jazeera English. Read More