20060707 Friday July 07, 2006

Why television is bad for democracy Okay, I overstated it a bit with that title, but this quote really struck me.

... he says that image media bypass reason and go straight to the emotions. The image media are a metaphor for not thinking logically. Images disable thinking, so unless people read and use their reason democracy is disabled as well. [Is Media Performance Democracy’s Critical Issue?]
Posted by Lance Lavandowska in Politics at 20060707

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