[LINK] Academics branded 'anti-US over FTA research'

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:44 PM 1/08/2006, Glen Turner wrote:
>Ironically, this lack of forthrightness is a powerful
>argument for teaching deconstruction, since all the reader
>has to inform themselves of Donnelly's world view is the
>text of his articles :-)
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and for teaching 'media literacy' - analysis and critique of the formal 
publishing organs: where does their money come from? How much to they 
protest editorial independence from those financial sources? What is the 
power relationship with the government powers of the day? This is one of 
the true benefits of open publishing like blogs etc. The hard part there is 
that there is too much of it. I know the professional journalists will hate 
this, but sometimes modern newspapers are no more than spiffed up blogs. 
They are often more opinion and editorial than factual stories, or worse, 
Roger Clarke's and Richard's common complaint of mouthpieces for company 
spin sheets proffered by lazy journos who wouldn't know how to develop and 
critical story if their livelihoods depended on it.


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