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we have less to fear from government restraints than from television glut; that, in fact, we have no way of protecting ourselves from information disseminated by corporate America; and that, therefore, the battles for liberty must be fought on different terrains from where they once were.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
I say that if the news needs a user’s manual, then the news needs repair.
Jeff Jarvis • The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
Liora's Musings • How Citizen Journalism & Education Reform Can Save Us from Bad Science
The viewers also know that no matter how grave any fragment of news may appear
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The one overwhelming problem with this attitude is that it sacrifices truth in the pursuit of a political goal.
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
On January 20, 2017, Time magazine seems to inadvertently prove the point when one of its reporters, Zeke Miller, erroneously reports that incoming president Trump has removed a bust statue of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office. The incendiary claim is born of a bias that used to be verboten in responsible journalism: Miller later explained th
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