Manufacturing consent uses a wonderfully sarcastic visual style to convey the meaning of it's argument; which I should state is particularly cynical when watching a film about how the media can influence with emotional appeal and propaganda. I particularly like the scene where the surgeons are operating on a news paper as Norm explains how the U.S. Press takes stories and edits them. This is not only a great example of propaganda, and I mean like Saturday morning cartoon propaganda, they aren't even trying to hide the cynicism, which is suppose is the point. The ridicules nature of the scene draws the attention of the audience while cleverly illustrating his point.
The scene with the newspaper strips is also a good example, the soul message of the scene can be communicated only the the visual style, I encourage every one to re watch that scene with the sound muted, I bet it would be just as convincing.
Oddly enough I can't tell if this was intentional or not but in the east timor part of the program norm's argument was that atrocities were only reported when it was the bad guy doing theme. So... does that mean when Norm uses emotional images and borderline yellow journalism hes making a point that he is also making his atrocities clear? Or is this just the standard bias plaguing most documentaries?
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