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Posted on 01/01/2011 5:48:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In "Annual Editions: Archaeology (2010)," of all places, I stumbled across this: "Today the mass media is the major source of epistemology in the modern world, and it underscores cultural values and also creates cultural myths by which all humans are made to live. The media is as much a response to our demands as we are to its manipulations. ... But the media mind is characterized by fuzzy thinking and skepticism."
Love it! Even misusing the word "epistemology" where I'm reasonably sure they meant to simply say "knowledge" (rather than "study of knowledge," which doesn't really make sense in that sentence)...
I'm often frustrated by our blend of skepticism and fuzzy thinking. Time crunches and lack of truly inside access to important decisions have an inevitable effect on the coverage and punditry that follows. I'm more often amazed at how close my brethren can get to the truth, given their sometimes severe handicaps...
I view anthropology, social science, political science and history more as deep journalism than I view journalism as the first rough draft of history.
Journalism borrows from the scientific method -- unlike that dude in his boxers blogging away at what he's sure must be right. It's the same discipline used by the scholars, only with a stopwatch and with more pieces missing from the picture in the rush of the moment...
I'd say the media is far more slave than master. All that media-as-bogeyman stuff is just fodder for the movies, conspiracy theory fans, and the odd anthropologist or two.
(Excerpt) Read more at summitdaily.com ...
The media is filled and mostly controlled by Demwit partisan shills, hence, for example, they plaster the AGW agitprop all over.
Without actually looking, I’ll hazard a guess that the complaints he cites originated with AGW shills complaining that they aren’t able to get their agitprop published without disclaimers, critiques, and (hardly) equal time.
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Thanks in large part to the internet, "that dude in his boxers" now has access to the same raw information that used to be sole preserve of "journalists." He can see that they are filtering that information to fit their preconceived notions, i.e. that they are NOT using the scientific method. And the fact that he's calling them on it makes them very defensive.
Thanx, the media are clearly a major part of the current threat facing the American republic !
The author is partly right, most of the media is spin and regurgitation of someone’s press release. So in that instance they’re the slave.
Yet, to the consumers of mass media they’re masters, editing out embarrassing or mitigating facts that don’t fit or reinforce their liberal worldview.
One reason journalism, government and teaching attract liberals is they crave control. They sometimes remind me of apprehensive psychology majors hoping their cure is found sitting in the chair rather than laying on the couch.
no photoshops of wookies in thongs please.
oops, wrong thread... lol
Even the local rag in our small town is a joke. The city and the school district spend money and whine about budget cuts with no scrutiny from the local paper. No context to the arguments, just regurgitated drivel from “officials”
Part of the Zombie process. The media attempts to turn us into mindless slaves. To some extent they are succeeding.
I wouldn't call them slaves so much as just lazy bums. If contents of a press release don't fit with their worldview, they criticize it mercilessly. Some of them even investigate, though I note that most of what passes for investigative journalism these days is pretty sloppy.
Yeah, our local paper here in deep red Alabama is a joke too. They are very good at quoting the local politicians, but not very good at fact checking them, especially the liberal ones. Of course this is a pretty good arrangement for the politicians. And I think being to the left of the general population makes the newspaper people feel sophisticated.
Of course, the paper continues to fail.
Partly true, some are lazy bums. Are you a reporter or journalist?
They have a pathetic existence and are easily manipulated. Their bosses can threaten them when threatened by political or financial maneuverings of their subjects. Many get killed trying to report the truth and more often, even when the truth is reported it is greeted with apathy on the part of the people or buried down the memory hole.
Bill Greider wrote a book called Who Will Tell The People? : The Betrayal Of American Democracy. This was back in 1992.
“This provocative manifesto, an eight-week PW bestseller in cloth, charges that America’s political parties, unions and media organizations have abandoned the citizenry, leaving powerful moneyed elites in control of politics and government.” - http://www.amazon.com/Who-Will-Tell-People-Democracy/dp/0671867407
Here’s a guy who reported it all nearly twenty years ago and the electorate ignored it. And here we are again with powerful moneyed elites still in control.
Journalism is a pitiable profession. Scoundrels get the reward. Of course, it’s the Devil’s world...for now.
There’s accountability as never before; the old-line media sources are vanishing; those which do not move to electronic distribution, and soon, won’t be around (the only exceptions being small-circulation small-town newspapers, which are mostly weeklies), maybe five years at the outside. The local garbage wrapper here spent massive cash on a supposedly state of the art printing facility in Walker; the paper is in multiple sections of course, but it’s left to the paper carriers to actually assemble it, and the one my mother has doesn’t do it, and often doesn’t include all the sections.
well said.
I’m pretty sure they don’t zombify anyone, they just make it terribly obvious that a lot of people are born zombies. :’)
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