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Rampant incivility, participation inequality, polarization, propaganda, distortion and distrust
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
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Open Letter Urging The New York Times to Commission an Independent Review
Professors and scholars of journalism call on The New York Times to commission an independent review of a front-page story raising questions about its reporting and editorial processes.
washingtonpost.comBy definition, mass media abhor diversity. Mass media as an institution imposes one image of the public on itself, which is fashioned, God-like, in the image of those who control media. The institution rejects that which does not conform as deviant: noise.
Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
If one’s goal is radical social transformation, electronic media in their current forms of mass availability are not useless—but only when they are subordinate to struggles and encounters taking place elsewhere.