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Chomsky & Herman, Manufacturing Consent

Theme: Foundations · 10 sentences.

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S835 The media institution is structurally required to communicate to the collective and install beliefs within it.

S836 Power builds the filters of the media system.

S837 Power manufactures consent.

S838 The media constructs some victims as worthy and others as unworthy.

S839 Power constrains the spectrum of acceptable discourse but does not constrain debate within it.

S840 The media enters into symbiotic relation with power.

S841 Power deploys organized criticism to discipline the media.

S842 Prevailing ideology constructs the filters of the media.

S843 The media does not transmit dissenting voices.

S844 Not conspiracy — by structural force, power dominates the media.

Batch Summary

S# Quote / Claim Core notation Structural notes
S835 Media's structural function sinesu nefe si looli ; kabe lotosu ko {oli} si-ne-su (W237) first use; ko {} as locative frame
S836 Power builds filters lawira kabe losinesu'sife si-ne-su'si-fe juncture; si-fe (W070) cross-domain
S837 Manufacturing consent lawira ka lowioli wi-o-li (W238) first use; four-morpheme title concept
S838 Worthy/unworthy victims lasinesu kabe lovodezoli / kabe lonovodezoli vo-de-zo-li/no-vo-de-zo-li first uses; parallel /
S839 Spectrum of acceptable opinion lawira kafe lotosufe ; nokafe lotosuki to-su-fe/to-su-ki first uses; ka-fe first predicate use
S840 Media-power symbiosis lasinesu neraki lowira ne-ra-ki (W059) first political-economy application
S841 Flak filter lawira karasi losinesu ra-si (force-signal/flak) first use
S842 Ideology as filter latosura kabe losinesu'sife Structural parallel with S836; to-su-ra standalone first use
S843 Marginalization of dissent lasinesu nosi losinosu si-no-su (dissent voice) first use
S844 Structure not conspiracy no [lawira neki] / go {sura}, lawira ra losinesu su-ra first use; no [clause] in / left arm; 5th "not-X/but-Y"

New W-entries: W237 si-ne-su = media institution / signal-network-structure · W238 wi-o-li = collective will / consent.

Compositional first uses: si-ne-su'si-fe (media-filter, S836, S842); vo-de-zo-li (worthy victim, S838); no-vo-de-zo-li (unworthy victim, S838); to-su-fe (discourse boundary/spectrum limit, S839); to-su-ki (discourse motion/debate, S839); ka-fe (deliberate boundary-imposition, S839); ra-si (force-signal/flak, S841); to-su-ra (doctrine-force standalone, S842); si-no-su (dissent voice, S843); su-ra (structural force, S844).


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