US Congress yesterday hosted hearing on disinformation & extremism in the media
Journalists should want to interrogate these issue
As @farai writes as"we are questioning all the systems of society, journalism cannot be too prideful to examine itself" faraic.medium.com/its-bigger-tha… 1/5
Journalists should want to interrogate these issue
As @farai writes as"we are questioning all the systems of society, journalism cannot be too prideful to examine itself" faraic.medium.com/its-bigger-tha… 1/5
One place to start is this (scathing) article: "What is being called our post-truth era [illustrates] the racial amnesia that plagues much of our contemporary post-truth criticism" in light of how e.g. media and politics often represent many minorities doi.org/10.1080/147914… 2/5
And this observation by some top-notch social scientists (which to my knowledge has largely been ignored by news coverage?)"Our analysis suggest that mainstream news media in fact play a significant and important role in the dissemination of fake news" doi.org/10.1080/238089… 3/5
Or @jeffreymberry @sobieraj on how subset of the news media are an "outrage industry" built on (for-profit) attempt to provoke emotional responses like fear, anger, moral indignation through use of generalizations, sensationalism, attacks, and ridicule global.oup.com/academic/produ… 4/5
Too easy to pretend problems confined to a few brands,but not all are equal. Here some studies on e.g Fox
@khadastrophic on tea party global.oup.com/academic/produ…
@lfeldman17 on climate denial oxfordre.com/climatescience…
Simonov et al on covid non-compliance nber.org/papers/w27237 5/5
@khadastrophic on tea party global.oup.com/academic/produ…
@lfeldman17 on climate denial oxfordre.com/climatescience…
Simonov et al on covid non-compliance nber.org/papers/w27237 5/5
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