IN 1922 the American cultural critic Walter Lippman argued in his book ‘Public Opinion’ that for the average person, ‘the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance…’
The result, according to the web newsletter ‘Science of Us’, is ‘most people don’t rely on critical thinking or have ready access to facts to make sense of their world, meaning we tend to lean on the pictures in our heads informed by the media’ to which we’re exposed.
The Four Corners program on live baiting is a good example of what happens when the abominable and completely Read full article
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