Media

 2012 09 16

Objectivity in the 21^st Century

Given the astonishing amount of “information” being presented to us via the multiplicity of “news” channels, and the internet, objectivity has become the responsibility of each individual absorbing the inflow of data. No sources can really be trusted; virtually all media seems to have an agenda. we are thus required to filter, strain, digest and interpret as best we can with whattools we happen to have acquired. It becomes necessary to doubt everything and make reasoned decisions about all manner of claims.

 2012 09 01

Although Fox News is a malefic propaganda organ it isn't the fundamental problem. The existence of a ready audience is. Whence such an audinece? People are afraid and unsettled and therefore look to retreat to avoid the collapse of their culture. Fox sadly hastens the collapes by pandering to this fear and propagandizing the myth of retreat. This of course creates a feedback loop.

 2012 05 15

There exists minimal liberal talk radio because liberalism is challenging and people don't want to hear the challenging. They prefer to listen to demagogues fulminating about the present while rapturizing misapprehended halcyon yesterdays.