Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

AWESOME VIDEO: Al Jazeera Presents "Manufacturing Consent" by Noam Chomsky, Narrated By Amy Goodman, Animated By Pierangelo Pirak

AND WHAT ARE THE ADVERTISERS PAYING FOR? AUDIENCES.
AND SO IT ISN'T SO MUCH THAT THE MEDIA ARE SELLING YOU
A PRODUCT -- THEIR OUTPUT -- THEY'RE ALSO
SELLING ADVERTISERS A PRODUCT --
YOU.



Noam Chomsky - The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy. 

Follow #MediaTheorised, an online project by Al Jazeera English’s media analysis show The Listening Post 

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Narrated by Amy Goodman, Executive Producer of Democracy Now!
Designed and animated by Pierangelo Pirak




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