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Noam Chomsky isn’t dead yet
For a few chaotic hours, the media could neither confirm nor debunk the media critic’s death.
Chomsky, 95, has been hospitalized in Brazil as he recovers from a stroke he had last year, the AP reported earlier this month. Some of the confusion around Chomsky’s state is preserved on a Wikipedia Talk page, as editors try to confirm reports of his death. “Insofar as working people accepted the line fed to them by the media, he [Chomsky] never took it to be because of their docility or their credulousness, but because of the great effort it took to find alternative avenues of information,” wrote Vivek Chibber in Jacobin, which is, amusingly, an approving recap of Chomsky’s media criticism.
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