Here in Oz, we had two ex prime ministers, from either side of politics, rallying against the monopoly of Murdoch's empire, the lies and bias, they were crying out for change, for accountability.
The response was... crickets.
Voting for change wouldn't be an answer. I don't expect to see any impetus from a political class that lacks either courage or moral values.
"There is much to be angry about, but screaming our heads off demands strapping in for the ride. Let us, instead, get off and shut the whole thing down."
How to do this though, if you're going to get off, you need something else to get on to.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
I feel I've found a home with Planet:: Critical. Thank you so much for your captivating interviews, your dead-on questions of your guests, your brilliant weekly articles. After years of increasing ecological grief or whatever the newest term is, I feel a sense of hope knowing there are journalists like you finding these fighters and truth-seekers and doers and spreading the word. A.D. (a former freelance journalist turned organic farmer/forager)
I've often wondered, if the late Neil Postman were alive today, would he pen a follow-up to his book, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', with the apropos 'Outraging Ourselves to Death'.
You are on to something here. There is a power in withholding participation, in walking away from the whole mess. And if enough people do it, the elites will feel it. It's complicated, and not without risk. But it does free up time to do real things.
Yes, sign me up!
But realistically, how?
Here in Oz, we had two ex prime ministers, from either side of politics, rallying against the monopoly of Murdoch's empire, the lies and bias, they were crying out for change, for accountability.
The response was... crickets.
Voting for change wouldn't be an answer. I don't expect to see any impetus from a political class that lacks either courage or moral values.
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The age of institutional journalism and truth telling is gone.
The media, or say most of it, serves the business and political interests of the elite.
That is why, in these age we call them "stenographers of the elite" Not Journalist.
"Stenographers of the elite" - nice, I like it : )
Hi .. the term was coined by Prof. P. Sainath in India
to describe the mainstream media within.
"There is much to be angry about, but screaming our heads off demands strapping in for the ride. Let us, instead, get off and shut the whole thing down."
How to do this though, if you're going to get off, you need something else to get on to.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller
I feel I've found a home with Planet:: Critical. Thank you so much for your captivating interviews, your dead-on questions of your guests, your brilliant weekly articles. After years of increasing ecological grief or whatever the newest term is, I feel a sense of hope knowing there are journalists like you finding these fighters and truth-seekers and doers and spreading the word. A.D. (a former freelance journalist turned organic farmer/forager)
Thanks so much!!
I've often wondered, if the late Neil Postman were alive today, would he pen a follow-up to his book, 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', with the apropos 'Outraging Ourselves to Death'.
Agree. I’ve been thinking about Postman a lot these days. Him and Orwell...
You are on to something here. There is a power in withholding participation, in walking away from the whole mess. And if enough people do it, the elites will feel it. It's complicated, and not without risk. But it does free up time to do real things.