Central America in the Paper of Record

Overview

M.I.T linguist, social critic, and influential author and radical thinker, Noam Chomsky discusses U.S. foreign policy towards Central America through deconstruction of an article published in the New York Times discussing the Nicaraguan conflict of the mid-1980s. By examining this article alongside the reality of the conflict, Chomsky illustrates two propagandistic strategies which the New York Times, a publication which for all practical purposed writes history, utilizes in order to support the ethical flaws of U.S. foreign policy towards Central America.