Chip Berlet says:
"Astroturf is not the same as manipulated groups of people numbering in the millions that would be what Chomsky calls the Propoganda Model."
JG asks:
Incidentally, Chip, doesn't Chomsky's "Propaganda Model" assume that the hoi polloi are taking positions against their own interest because they are being fed false information and being denied accurate information -- and would think and act in their own interest if they had access to the actual facts? If so, this model doesn't seem to apply to the vast majority of Tea Partiers, either...
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