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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Chapters: Noam Chomsky, Sheldon Rampton, Howard Zinn, John Stauber, Bill Moyers, Stephen Colbert, Christopher Hitchens, Jon Stewart, Glenn Greenwald, Michael Parenti, Eric Alterman, Amy Goodman, Robert W. McChesney, Robert Greenwald, Jerry Mander, Carl Bernstein, Jaffer Ali, David Brock, Jim A. Kuypers, Richard Socarides, Norman Solomon, Bernard Goldberg, John M. Culkin, Ben Bagdikian, Jay Rosen, Michael Walsh, John Nichols, Reed Irvine, Naomi Baron, Jeff Cohen, Mark Crispin Miller, Eric Burns, Herbert Schiller, Scott Apel, Janine Jackson, Sam Husseini. Excerpt: Avram Noam Chomsky (; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, computer scientist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) of in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and a major figure of analytic philosophy. His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology. Chomsky is credited as the creator or co-creator of the Chomsky hierarchy theorem, the Universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky-Schützenberger theorem. Describing Chomsky's Syntactic Structures, Stanford University computer scientist and Professor Emeritus Donald Knuth wrote: "Here was a marvelous thing: a mathematical theory of language in which I could use a computer programmer's intuition!" Chomsky has been active in left-wing politics and he opposed the Vietnam War. His social criticism has also included Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (1988), co-written with Edward S. Herman, an analysis articulating the propaganda model theory for examining the media. According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992. He is also the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author". He has been described as a prominent cultural figure, while his critiques of U.S. foreign policy have raised controversy. Chomsky is the author of over 150 books. Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT, in which Chomsky holds his office in the Department of Linguistics and PhilosophyChomsky was born on the morning of December 7, 1928, to Jewish parents in the affluent East Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of noted professor of Hebrew at Gratz College and IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) member William Chomsky (1896-1977), a native of Ukraine. His mother, Elsie Chomsky (