Noam Chomsky Quotes
Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the 'Wall Street Journal.'
Chomsky, Noam. Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance. Metropolitan Books, 2003.
In modern times, there have been many incidents of members of the press not supporting the current war effort. Sometimes, it is the greed to get a story, and other times, it is to advocate an alternate strategy. Most often it is a belief that in democracy, only a knowledgeable public can govern the government. The administration or general cannot be relied upon to provide accurate information. Many think The Vietnam War started this problem, but it has been ongoing ever since the Revolution. In the War of 1812, with many Americans dying fighting, other Americans were critiquing the war infuriating the military and the President. Similarly, in all other wars including the Civil War. The relationship between Grant and the Press was as vitriolic as that of the Vietnam War. The war where there was the least conflict between the military and the press was WWII where press were given total access to the front lines without the controls that developed later in the Iraq War.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
