![]() ![]() My home-town public radio station, WNYC, has rightly been foregrounding a program it previously formatted as a podcast and provocatively, if for me a little too vaguely, named The United States of Anxiety it’s now being broadcast over the traditional airwaves, and in a prime-time, early evening spot. In a country that supposedly practices universal suffrage – after a tortuous history away from the most egregious denials of voting-rights – how can it be that efforts to limit and suppress the people’s vote are still being perpetrated? One such basic truth requires close attention: the matter of just WHOSE voices will count (quite literally) as we make our forthcoming choice as a nation. ![]() They have, thank goodness, not forgotten the fundamental mandate we carry out as media workers, to function as the people’s eyes and ears, drawing attention to basic truths that otherwise might go unheeded. And for far too many outlets, it’s merely a matter of taking sides, in essence taking the feckless route of simply identifying with polarized political camps and doing what the loudest-voiced extremists do – close-mindedly denying whatever realities may lie within their opponents’ world-views.īut amid all the argy-bargy, some more responsible media organizations are stepping back and providing us with a journalistically thorough, fact-based overview. ![]() AN EXISTENTIAL CHOICE faces America in these final days before November 3rd.Īnd how are the nation’s media rising to this epochal challenge? ![]()
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