Well in my ranting way, I think I strayed way off topic in wintermutes thread, ged proposed a new post... and you don't say no to a guy with a beard like that 
(I mean just look at it, no sane person would do that to himself)
One of the big concerns of mine, is the way in which people today are being forcefed biased information, presented as objective serious journalism. The news media today are struggling for a market that has exploded, yet the market size, is fixed to the population of our world, and the hours in which we are available to consume it. Especially the traditional media of newspapers, radio and television have reacted aggresively to keep their niché of the market. Meanwhile, since the wall went down, capitalism have been let to roam free and the globalization process been sold and bought as primarily a corperation affair, leaving nations hardpressed to restrict the resources of their societies. The result has been that the ammount of information the avg. human being are presented with thruout a day, have exploded, the time in which this information have to be prosessed and delivered are one of the calamities; how often do we not hear news being presented in various forms untill hours, days, weeks, months later do the true story come out?
All "serious" media, tries to present their stories as objective, we have this notion of the objective journalist, hence the need for newscasts on television to be dressed in bland jackets and ties, lest they have a personality that might colour the material presented. But can a commercial media ever be trusted with objectivity? Is it at all possible to investigate a issue without at the very first decision on how to cover it, impose subjectivity?
I don't believe in the idea of objective newsmedia, I think we would be a damn sight better of with media that acknowledges their subjectivity.
In the end, I think we are standing in the middle of changes, so large that we are blind to them in everyday life. One of the changes is that the oldstyle information gathering, was to a very large extent passive, but today if you want true valid information, you have to seek it out yourself, with the knowledge, intelligence, wisdom and opportunity to be very critical of its sources... the danish term is "kildekritisk"; sourcecritical and that is one of the things I consider it my highest priority as a parent to teach my kid, the ability to actively seek out information and weigh its validity...
I could go on and on, but lets have some feedback?
(I mean just look at it, no sane person would do that to himself)One of the big concerns of mine, is the way in which people today are being forcefed biased information, presented as objective serious journalism. The news media today are struggling for a market that has exploded, yet the market size, is fixed to the population of our world, and the hours in which we are available to consume it. Especially the traditional media of newspapers, radio and television have reacted aggresively to keep their niché of the market. Meanwhile, since the wall went down, capitalism have been let to roam free and the globalization process been sold and bought as primarily a corperation affair, leaving nations hardpressed to restrict the resources of their societies. The result has been that the ammount of information the avg. human being are presented with thruout a day, have exploded, the time in which this information have to be prosessed and delivered are one of the calamities; how often do we not hear news being presented in various forms untill hours, days, weeks, months later do the true story come out?
All "serious" media, tries to present their stories as objective, we have this notion of the objective journalist, hence the need for newscasts on television to be dressed in bland jackets and ties, lest they have a personality that might colour the material presented. But can a commercial media ever be trusted with objectivity? Is it at all possible to investigate a issue without at the very first decision on how to cover it, impose subjectivity?
I don't believe in the idea of objective newsmedia, I think we would be a damn sight better of with media that acknowledges their subjectivity.
In the end, I think we are standing in the middle of changes, so large that we are blind to them in everyday life. One of the changes is that the oldstyle information gathering, was to a very large extent passive, but today if you want true valid information, you have to seek it out yourself, with the knowledge, intelligence, wisdom and opportunity to be very critical of its sources... the danish term is "kildekritisk"; sourcecritical and that is one of the things I consider it my highest priority as a parent to teach my kid, the ability to actively seek out information and weigh its validity...
I could go on and on, but lets have some feedback?
