Saturday, January 5, 2019
WHY SHOULD IT BE THE PRESS ROLE TO CALL PRESIDENT TO ACCOUNT?
Isn't that, after all, why we have a system of government such as we have? Checks and balances and all of that.
Isn't it, rather, the government's role to do that, not properly the press?
But the press takes its role expansively, to criticize all branches of government at all levels.
Yet, after all, on what academic or technical ground should a journalist credential, assuming one has even that, entitle the press and its editors and writers to properly advise anyone of anything, or analyze anything in detail?
If the press retains experts, as they also do, why should anyone believe retained experts rather than others equally or better qualified?
The press' main goals in history have been to distract, mislead, proselytize, pander, accrue political power for itself, and to make profits. It has seldom or never been disinterested in its product in one or more ways. It has never promoted any cause not in its financial interests.
Isn't it, rather, the government's role to do that, not properly the press?
But the press takes its role expansively, to criticize all branches of government at all levels.
Yet, after all, on what academic or technical ground should a journalist credential, assuming one has even that, entitle the press and its editors and writers to properly advise anyone of anything, or analyze anything in detail?
If the press retains experts, as they also do, why should anyone believe retained experts rather than others equally or better qualified?
The press' main goals in history have been to distract, mislead, proselytize, pander, accrue political power for itself, and to make profits. It has seldom or never been disinterested in its product in one or more ways. It has never promoted any cause not in its financial interests.
hursday, February 28, 2019
THE PRESS AND THE ASSEMBLY SUI GENERIS VIRTUE
"...In a pre-democratic age neither the press nor Parliament itself filled the constructive role each was later to define for itself: the contribution of both was often negative...." JCD Clark, p 130.
I would just point out that, in a democratic age, these institutions have made no more of a positive contribution than they had done in the pre-democratic age.
Each defining its role as constructive involves a fallacy, even if true on other grounds, which not.
Each defining its role as constructive involves a fallacy, even if true on other grounds, which not.
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