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The
Media and the
Cognitive Order
You Don't Need a Tinfoil Hat, But...
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Virtual
Society? Robert Winter
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Apprehending
the Robert Winter
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Collective
Longings, Robert Winter
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The
Media's Rivalry Robert Winter
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The
Meridian Lesson Robert Winter
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Advertising
as Robert Winter
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Dissemination
of knowledge to society is now performed mainly by the media.
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Media-style
"authority" has more to do with popular acceptance than with proof.
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Making
an idea's authority coequal to popular acceptance is an invitation down the path back to
more primitive belief systems.
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Today's
media generate an enveloping--and ultimately isolating--illusion of connectedness.
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It
may be as important that we enjoy identifying with pop musicians as that we enjoy
listening to them.
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Even
in sports, celebrity nowadays has as much to do with symbolizing as with achieving.
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Today's
celebrity system represents a potent form of secular mythology.
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We've
come to doubt that anyone except anointed denizens of the media realm can know much of
anything significant.
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Undervaluing
non-celebrity observations cheats us all--but is consistent with other forms of
contemporary communication.
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To
reverse the trends that belittle us, we need to ascribe more value to our own
observations.
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In
some areas, ordinary citizens have advantages over the media.
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Television
news can profoundly disconnect us from what's actually going on around us.
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Sometimes
the news media are profoundly, even dangerously, out of touch with real life.
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Post-Glasnost
Tips for Former East Bloc Citizens: Ever-Present Eyes and Ears
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Post-Glasnost
Tips for Former East Bloc Citizens: Official News
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