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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:14 am Post subject: Accountability in the news: |
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Bravo!! It was not so long ago that no story went to print without at least two independent confirmations. Much of the spin and propaganda of the last six years would have never happened if news outlets still held to this important credo.
Radio Station Cries 'Enough' -- Won't Quote From Certain News Stories Relying on Unnamed Officials
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By Greg Mitchell
Published: February 13, 2007 10:55 PM ET
...Bill Dupuy sent the following to his news staff.
Effectively immediately and until further notice, it is the policy of KSFR's news department to ignore and not repeat any wire service or nationally published story about Iran, China, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia or any other foreign power that quotes an "unnamed" U.S. official.
What we have suspected and talked about at length before is now becoming clear. "High administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity," "Usually reliable Washington sources," and others of the like were behind the publicity that added credibility to the need to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq.
Our news department covers local news. But, like local newspapers and others, we occassionally are taken in by national stories that we have no way to verify... |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:32 am Post subject: |
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I say kudos to this news outlet. Very apparent that the "wink, wink, nudge, nudge " and the cuddling with the media (and embeddedness) has gone way too far.
This week's cover of the Economist is just another scary example of how things escalate and soon public concensus reaches a climax, a too soon climax. The cover is of a stealth bomber with the headline, "IS IRAN NEXT" or something such.... Apparent that in this day and age how the media is used to not bring the news as much as "fertilize public opinion".
This is done to the detriment of all. Once we lose our free thinking faculties, we are but widgets, ACME employees and automatons (but don't know it). I read over and over a brillant column on this, this weekend. The author I believe, suggests the correct thesis that we are much more suseptible to coersion and media manipulation because we have lost our inner dialogue and our reading skills, our quiet time and inner debate within ourselves. This change of public consciousness is dangerous and a catalyst for mass hysteria and violence and the always ending, corrpution of power -- especially the absolute kind.
Kudos for a press that reports and doesn't just act as a blowhorn. Let us citizens do that and form our own voice. I wish I could find an old Menken article on this subject, he said it as always, so well.
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This inescapable individualism is the bedrock principle of democracy, a form of social organization that became possible only when contemplative reading was widely enabled by the mass production of the printing press, and the popular education that followed. With every person able to read in the mode of Ambrose, the genius of Ambrose could belong to all. But democracy assumes the protection of the values that contemplative reading makes possible � the self- awareness of citizens, their privacy, their capacity for willed interiority. Only because of such reading is each one a center of knowing, thinking, choosing, and acting. But what happens to consciousness when such values are put at risk?
That is the question today. Once again, as occurred when the scroll became the book, innovations in technology that change the primal experience of reading are causing a shift in consciousness. |
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/13/opinion/edcarroll.php
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately, there are but a handful here - or anywhere - who will understand what you just wrote. |
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ddeubel
Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| Unfortunately, there are but a handful here - or anywhere - who will understand what you just wrote. |
No worries here. It's the process that counts. But guess I'll just have to return to my Gutenberg galaxy alone. Though I have no doubt, a few other voyagers have ventured there.
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