This film showcases Noam Chomsky, one of America's leading linguists and political dissidents. It also illustrates his message of how government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of their populations. The key examples featured for this analysis are the simultaneous events of the massive coverage of the communist atrocities of Khmer Rouge regime of Cambodia and the suppression of news of the US supported Indonesian invasion and subjugation of East Timor.

Starring:

Mark Achbar , Karin Aguilar-San Juan , Paul Andrews , William F. Buckley , Noam Chomsky , Robert Faurisson , Jeff Greenfield , Jeff Hansen , Loie Hayes , Edward S. Herman , Arnold Kohen , Robert MacNeil , Bill Moyers , Yossi Olmert , Lydia Sargent

Genre:

Documentary, Biography, War