By Noam Chomsky
These interviews, performed in 1993 and 1994, contact on a variety of household and overseas issues from company welfare and unfastened alternate to gun regulate and spiritual fundamentalism
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Investors don't go down to the television studio and make sure that the local talkshow host or reporter is doing what they want. There are other, subtler, more complex mechanisms that make it fairly certain that the people on the air will do what the owners and investors want. , if they've internalized the values of the owners. At that point, they can describe themselves as quite free. So you'll occasionally find some flaming independent-liberal type like Tom Wicker who writes, Look, nobody tells me what to say.
Corporate lobbying vastly exceeded labor lobbying, but you can't even talk about it in the same breath. It wasn't considered raw muscle or antidemocratic. Did Lewis have a column denouncing corporate lobbying for NAFTA? I didn't see it. I didn't see it either. Things reached the peak of absolute hysteria the day before the vote. The New York Times lead editorial was exactly along the lines of that quote from Lewis, and it included a little box that listed the dozen or so representatives in the New York region who were voting against NAFTA.
You can get software programmers in India who are very well trained at a fraction of the cost of Americans. Somebody involved in this business recently told me that Indian programmers are actually being brought to the US and put into what are kind of like slave labor camps and kept at Indian salaries -- a fraction of American salaries -doing software development. So that kind of work can be farmed out just as easily. The search for profit, when it's unconstrained and free from public control, will naturally try to repress people's lives as much as possible.
