Accuracy in Media (AIM), 95, 96
Aelius Donatus, 46
American Legal Foundation, 95
Amnesty International, 123
anti-communism, as political stance, 83, 96–97, 125, 133
anti-Semitism, 11
Arab-Israeli conflict, 133
Arbenz, Jacobo, 130
Bagdikian, Ben, The Media Monopoly 84–85
Bailey, Thomas, 76
Baker, James, 115
behaviorism, 49–50, 51, 54, 56, 60, 65–68
Bernays, Edward, 74
Blair, Eric Arthur. See Orwell, George
Bloch, Bernard, 50
Bloomfield, Leonard, Language, 49–50
Boas, Franz, 49
broadcast time, 99
Buchanan, Patrick, 95
Bush, George, 115, 143–44, 145
capitalist democracy. 73–77, 80–82, 83–87, 105–16. See also class; news filters
Capital Legal Foundation, 95
Center for Media and Public Affairs, 95
centralization, of media. 86
Chomsky, Avram Noam:
clarity of vision, 19–20, 21, 57
Counter-Revolutionary Violence
(with Edward S. Hermann), 103–4
early political interests, 11–14
kibbutz experience, 17
Knowledge of Language, 36
Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory, 18
Manufacturing Consent (with Edward S. Hermann), 82
Necessary Illusions 70–73, 76–77
political activism of, 19–21, 139–41
political stance of, 30
“The Responsibility of Intellectuals” (article). 19–20
Rethinking Camelot, 149
Syntactic Structures, 44
Turning the Tide, 128
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Edward S. Hermann), 120
Year 501, 147
Chomsky, William (father), Hebrew, the Eternal Language, 10
class, socio-economic, 31, 34–35, 105–10, 137–38
Clinton, Bill, 111–12, 143–44, 145
column space, 99
Communist Party, in U.S., 35
Corry, John, 95
The Daily Herald (British social-democratic paper), 88
Declaration of Independence (U.S.), 28
as threat to governmental authority, 80–81, 101–2
Discourse on Method, 23
diachronic linguistics, 49
Dionysus Thrax, 46
doublespeak, 40
doublethink, 40
editorial point of view, 98–99
El Salvador, 131
Federal Highway Acts, 112
foreign policy, of U.S., 120–36, 145–48
freedom of the press and speech, 72, 104
Freud, Sigmund, 12
Gelb, Leslie, 127
general grammars, 47
General Motors, 113
generative linguistics, 31–32, 43, 50–51
Goodman, Nelson, 16
Gore, Al, 145
government subsidies, 110–16, 151–52
grammar, as innate in humans, 25, 53, 54–65, 67
Greek language, 46
Greenfield, Jeff, 98
Gulf and Western, 89
Harris, Zellig, 15–16, 42–44, 50
Hebrew language, 10
Hermann, Edward S.:
Counter-Revolutionary Violence (with Chomsky), 103–4
Manufacturing Consent (with Chomsky), 82
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism (with Chomsky), 120
Hiroshima, 14
Hockett, Charles. 50
human beings, innate characteristics of, 25, 28, 30, 33, 52, 53, 54–65, 67
imprinting, 56
Iraq, 146
Islamic fundamentalism, 97, 133
Jay, John, 73
Jefferson, Thomas, 152
Jewish intellectual culture (New York City), 12, 34–35
Jewish state, Chomsky’s attitude toward, 15, 17
Jones, William, 49
Kennan, George, Policy Planning Study 23, 121–22
Kennedy, John F, 128
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 136
Kroeber, Alfred L., 49
language, unique to humans, 28, 54
language acquisition, vs. language learning, 56–58
Laswell, Harold, 75
Latin language, 46
learning and knowledge, 25, 59–65
Liddy, G. Gordon, 79
linguistic prescriptivism, 46
linguistics, 15–16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 31–32, 42–44, 45–68
Lippman, Walter, 75
MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, 93
magazine and news empires, 86
Mailer, Norman, 21
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (film) (Achbar and Wintonick), 142, 143
Marcos, 148
as deceiver and mythmaker, 101–10
as inseparable from politics, 103
See also news filters as threat to governmental authority, 80–81, 101–2
Media Institute, 95
The Media Monitor (journal), 95
military spending, 38, 116–17, 145
Mill, James, 73
Mill, John Stuart, “On Liberty” (essay), 32
Mondale, Walter, 146
Muslims, 97
myth of the classless society, 105–10
National City Lines, 113
Native American languages, 49
New Party, 150
newspaper empires, 85
newspeak, 39
news sources, 83, 91–93, 142–43
The New York Review of Books, 19–20
The New York Times, 44, 147–48
Nicaragua, 131
Nida, Eugene, 50
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 76
Noriega, 132
North, Oliver, 79
Ohmann, Richard, 61
Homage to Catalonia, 38
“Politics and the English Language” (essay), 40–41
Panini (Indian scholar), 47, 48
Perot, Ross, 144
Philippines, 148
philosophy, 16
Pike, Kenneth, 50
political activism, 139–41, 150
Powell, William, 72
Priscian, 46
propaganda: how to fight back and withstand, 139–41
and the media, 70, 75, 80–82, 100. See also news filters Orwell’s fight against, 36–41 targets of, 78–80
public television (WNET), 89
publishers, 86
Reagan, Ronald, 95
Romance languages, 46
Discourse on Equality, 28
Sapir, Edward, 49
Sarnoff, William, 104
Saudi Arabia, 133
Saussure, Ferdinand de, Course in General Linguistics, 49
scandals, in American political system, 79–80
Schaz, Carol, 16
Schlesinger, Arthur, 149
Schmertz, Herbert, 95
scientific method, 24, 26, 43, 50, 52–53, 64
Seekins, Steven V., 95
Sloan, Alfred, 112
Smith, Adam, 118
social justice, Chomsky’s sense of, 13, 14, 29, 44
Society of Fellows at Harvard, 16–17
sources of information, 83, 91–93, 142–43
Soviet communism, 35
structural linguistics (American), 50–51
synchronic linguistics, 49
Tet Offensive, 149
Thailand, 148
thoughtcrime, 39
thought police, 39
trade agreements, 151
traditional grammar, 46
transformations (linguistic formulas; Harris), 43, 50–51
transformative-generative linguistics. See generative linguistics Trilateral Commission, “The Crisis of Democracy” (study), 80, 101
Trujillo, 128
United Fruit Company, 130
United States Constitution, 28
See also grammar
Vedas, 48
wealthy class, and the media, 83–87. See also capitalist democracy
Whittlesey, Faith, 95
WNET (public television), 89