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The Flow
I've recently discovered the Flow, a critical forum on television and media culture published biweekly by the department of Radio, Television, and Film at the University of Texas at Austin, thanks to Blog Explosion and Wake Up Sheepole. Here's what has drawn me to them:
Some Good News about the News:
5 Reasons Why ‘Fake' News is Better than Fox ‘News'
by Brian L. Ott
There is no more destructive, deleterious, and dangerous institution in society today than the mainstream news media. It has so profoundly fallen short of its mission and responsibilities in a democratic society that it has become our greatest national disgrace. The dramatic problems with the news media and in particular with the network news are well documented, ranging from its information biases to its corporate concentration 1. Given its utter failure to serve the public as a positive tool for civic engagement, public opinion of the news media--not surprisingly--has been declining for twenty years. (...) read the whole article here.