i read his "manufacturing consent" several decades ago. i don't recommend it to anyone. b/c to read it & understand it is very depressing.
essentially he says, that the avg american is totally, inexorably f*cked.
I love Noam
What's not to love about him? He's smart as a whip and speaks truth to power. He is someone I've admired for years....
Part of what enables this is that industry has never had to deal with their own externalities, those things they pass along the cost to everyone else, like pollution.