Who Says - Megan Garber on narrative authority in a fragmented world
Trust Falls – Justin Peters on lessons from St. Louis on authority, credibility, and online communications
Further Reading - Annotated reading lists from Megan Garber and Justin Peters
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Check out this article- today on the net....."Health Care Reform Bill 101: Who must buy insurance?from the CSM. Shouldn't this be published as comments, opinion, editorial by.... rather than a news article from the CSM?
This one article definitely flashes major RED WARNING lights in my mind. Well, looks to me like CSM has bit the dust and joined the crowd, maybe a long time ago, and I was just too oblivious/distracted/dumb to notice.
Today, any reasonable reader has to check the political postioning of every reporter, corporate ownership, political positioning of top corporate officials that are listed under ownership of each and every media conglomerate. Politicizing information rather than reporting FACTUAL information is the only NORMAL out there in LALA-LAND for the general public to be diverted and confused by, so nothing needs to be accomplished in any democratic process by elected representatives.....
The BUBBLES of DISTORTION and DEFLECTION from fact by media strategists are hard at work, destroying every level of need for any citizen to even sustain, let alone attempt to develop reasonable CRITICAL THINKING. Public discourse is so fractured that most of what is easily read and accessible on the internet is only advertising for more advertising, easily digestible 10-second little bits of fluffy disintegrating stuff, distractingly lacking, and totally destructive of any real thinking, or factual presentation in text.
If, distortion and deflection from critical, reasonable factual reporting continues, I expect that I'll personally experience, unfortunately, in my present lifetime, what it's like to be a citizen experiencing a nation's mass social chaos rather than just the reflections of superficial mass media confusion. So here's a quantum leap--in other words, deceit does not produce good, on any level, within any operating system of any society, and that just ain't healthy for any body..................http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0319/Health-care-reform-bill-101-Who-must-buy-insurance...
#1 Posted by Lisa, CJR on Fri 19 Mar 2010 at 02:05 PM
Access to health care doesn't mean you're going to get good health care. It means you have access to it. To get good health care, you have to be an advocate for yourself and have a vested interest.
#2 Posted by Blake, CJR on Sun 9 Jan 2011 at 06:41 AM