Incredible. I don’t even know how to respond to that. Chomsky’s case is meticulously documented in the book Manufacturing Consent itself and has been borne out again and again in reality. If you truly think that terms of debate and discourse in the corporate media are not highly constrained by the factors listed in the article then you are living in a fantasy land. Coverage of the recent military coup in Bolivia by the US mass media is ‘exhibit A’ in this regard.