“You must meet the condition of concision,” he once said. “You gotta say things between two commercials or in 600 words. And that’s a very important fact. The beauty of concision is that you can only repeat conventional thoughts.”[12] Because, according to Chomsky, unconventional pronouncements, such as “The worst terrorist campaign in the world by far is the one that’s being orchestrated in Washington,” require far more elaboration and explanation than can ever be allowed within these constraints and so normally never make it on air.[13]
