"Free Speech": Who's Listening? |
Friday Apr 02 2010
By Jim Selman | Bio
One of the paradoxes of a free and democratic society is that it only takes a few committed and fanatical people to screw up the system for every one. Political entrepreneurs can appeal to people’s fears and concerns, get power by gathering together a group with common worries and beliefs, and then isolate ‘their’ followers from the larger population. The media can entrench this kind of political or social fragmentation. When people become addicted to their ‘own’ particular media channels—ones that support the messages of ‘their’ leaders or ‘their’ side—we end up with no one listening to anyone else’s point of view. While this can and does exist everywhere to some degree, it is particularly evident
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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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