Rick -- Perhaps I am still not understanding your question on Chomsky. As a media theorist, I don't find him particularly original. It seems to me that he fits within a large tradition of political economists of the media. He does what he does well, but he doesn't seem to be saying much that others haven't said before. I get the feeling that he gets a lot of attention because he is Chomsky, the guru of Chomskyian linguistics, rather than because he represents a particularly original voice on media. I, therefore, don't know of much work in media studies that is directly influenced by his writing; but I could point to many writers who do work in a similar vein. Henry