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quinta-feira, 7 de dezembro de 2023

The central issue is the power imbalance; the institutions that should function as regulators are ineffective and, to a certain extent, part of the problem.

Individually, regulators like Bill Black are exceptions; most are more concerned with their career ambitions than the public good.

The priority must be to focus on two deficits that represent existential threats: the democratic deficit and the discernment deficit. And we have to start with discernment to deal with the democratic deficit.

For now, I see more signs of "embracing" fascism as salvation than of acquiring the knowledge necessary to develop the discernment to generate the unity indispensable to demand organized radical systemic/structural change.

How the Media Frames Political Issues

In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]

McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15]

http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html