In theory, we can now bring billions of minds to bear on the complex problems we face. Yet we live in an age of digitally amplified polarization and disinformation (I hope we can all agree these are problems). How can we learn to disagree gracefully? How can we teach that? We urgently need to create shared understandings of media, and how to use them in service of wellbeing. Especially if McLuhan was right that WW3 is an information war.

#media

"Our democracies would be in even more trouble than they already are if anyone voicing suspicion of mainstream media was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. It would be a world where the far right has successfully monopolised the terms of media criticism."

- #SeanPhelan, 2022

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/462677/why-legitimate-criticism-of-mainstream-media-is-in-danger-of-being-hijacked-by-anti-vax-and-freedom-movements

#media #MSM #MediaStudies

I'm rewatching Pierce Brosnan's James #Bond movies now available on #Netflix, and Tomorrow Never Dies really didn't age well. Not because of the technology expectedly obsolete, but rather because the evil #media mogul plans to have a "cool, objective coverage" of the world crisis he's brewing.

Ignoring all the side murdering, this statement of intent alone places him morally above Roger Ailes, infamous for Fox News, and many other media outlets, some of them even credentialed to cover the White House.