For the most part-- at least what I gathered from the film-- I am in agreement with the main idea of 'Manufacturing Consent'. Chomsky's big thesis throughout the movie is simply that the mass media orients itself around the greater or elite groups, and tends to not stray away from their interests.
I find it to be very true that the mass media organizes itself based on the big guys, because they decide what the public should and should not know. This really affects the decisions people make and, in turn, the society we live in.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Mass-Media-Influence-on-Society
The article on this page (Mass Media Influence on Society) because, as the article states, most people orient a lot of their lives around the glowing rectangles that most of us associate with technology. What we use it for possibly the most, is communication and media usage. Almost all the widest-spread newspapers and magazines and even television shows are now found on the internet, where most people spend at least a portion of their time on. Taking this into consideration, one can clearly see how a family's decisions-- perhaps financial, social, and work options-- are influenced.
http://hope.journ.wwu.edu/tpilgrim/j190/Chomsky.summary.html
As stated in this article,Chomsky also made a point about how 'propaganda is to democracy what violence is to a dictatorship' in regards to the thought control in a democratic society. I must say that I agree with this point as well. When we take into consideration how the government (and other widespread groups and organizations) can put limitations on to what is published and essentially skew the materials that are exposed to the public, it's a lot of power given to them. Hence, this 'advertising' or 'propaganda' is used in favor of the democracy (to those in highest power and largest groups) just as a dictator would use violence to keep the public 'in line', as one could put it.
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