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Old 05-05-2014, 05:59 AM  
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Chomsky on PR




"The public relations industry, which essentially runs the elections, is applying certain principles to undermine democracy which are the same as the principles that applies to undermine markets. The last thing that business wants is markets in the sense of economic theory. Take a course in economics, they tell you a market is based on informed consumers making rational choices. Anyone who?s ever looked at a TV ad knows that?s not true. In fact if we had a market system an ad say for General Motors would be a brief statement of the characteristics of the products for next year. That?s not what you see. You see some movie actress or a football hero or somebody driving a car up a mountain or something like that. And that?s true of all advertising. The goal is to undermine markets by creating uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices and the business world spends huge efforts on that. The same is true when the same industry, the PR industry, turns to undermining democracy. It wants to construct elections in which uninformed voters will make irrational choices. It?s pretty reasonable and it?s so evident you can hardly miss it."
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