The Blacklisting of Noam Chomsky

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from Consortium News:



The Blacklisting of Noam Chomsky
December 16, 2013

An odd aspect of modern American life is that even with 24-hour news and its roster of blathering pundits, many creative thinkers with valuable insights are blacklisted from mainstream media, perhaps most notably Noam Chomsky who turned 85 on Dec. 7, as Jeff Cohen reflects.

By Jeff Cohen


This month, Noam Chomsky turned 85 – and he’s the subject of a new animated movie focused on his scientific and social philosophies. He has actually seen this movie, unlike other works about him: “I can’t stand watching myself.”

He’s one of the world’s best-known intellectuals and one of the least vain. Or elitist. Put him in a roomful of a thousand social activists (not uncommon surroundings for him) and you’ll see him attempt to meet each of them, one-by-one, until he’s physically removed to rush to the airport or next appointment.

Standing at a podium in his usual brown corduroy sport jacket, he laces his lectures with biting sarcasm toward corporate malefactors, warmongers and their sycophants among intellectual and media elites. But with regular folks, he’s a model of gentleness and compassion that would make Eugene Debs blush with envy.

I saw Noam Chomsky as my mentor – way before we ever met. When I was in college in the late 1960s/early’70s, he was already a guiding light for me, an exemplar of how those with privilege and principles should live our lives. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/16/the-blacklisting-of-noam-chomsky/

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. kick

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2. 'blacklisting'..

[UtahJosh]

3. Blacklisted seems right to me

black·list (blklst)
n.
A list of persons or organizations that have incurred disapproval or suspicion or are to be boycotted or otherwise penalized.
tr.v. black·list·ed, black·list·ing, black·lists
To place on or as if on a blacklist. See Synonyms at blackball.

n
a list of persons or organizations under suspicion, or considered untrustworthy, disloyal, etc., esp one compiled by a government or an organization
vb
(tr) to put on a blacklist
blacklisting n

I dunno. Seems pretty consistent with the way the media and government have handled Chomsky going back a long while.

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4. Sometimes you kick, sometimes you get kicked......