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Eleanors38

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7. Good post. Our country, Revolution-to-recent-past, was founded on a mass media model...

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Mon Mar 7, 2016, 05:56 PM

Mar 2016

which utilized an unregulated technology, "presses," to not only communicate to thousands quickly, but to legitimize issues, agendas and mythologies. That old technology included radio, T.V. and broadside mailers, but in the last 15 years, it has collapsed and taken with it the whole culture of Why We Are. The new super individuated techs have not substituted "something of value" for the old, and may not be able to. It is a marketers nightmare and wet dream. The question we are left with, well beyond the poignant end of a career or profession, is: What is the rationale for a nation state? Who legitimizes? Who starts a movement? Why?

Many times I have broached this question; many times I have been met with silence.

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What Happens to Journalists When No One Wants to Print Their Words Anymore? [View all] Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 OP

I'm one of those former journalists LiberalEsto Mar 2016 #1

it is a real shame. bots write now and you can tell it's not human. i really enjoyed Spotlight, bettyellen Mar 2016 #2

Link to full story here: Heidi Mar 2016 #3

Thanks for adding this. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #4

Happy to help! Heidi Mar 2016 #6

Thanks malaise Mar 2016 #5

Good post. Our country, Revolution-to-recent-past, was founded on a mass media model... Eleanors38 Mar 2016 #7