The "4th branch" thing isn't very new at all, the media has been called "The Fourth Estate" for ages. But yes, I agree with your lecturer - which is why it's so troubling when the media is so bought and paid-for as it is in the U.S.
Oh, oops. Forgive my ignorance. Dr. Owen (the lecturer in question) was going through an article she wrote in 2012 and the ideas seemed so new to me I guess I assumed they were new to everyone. Literature major. Ask me about Borges!
She took some great potshots at Fox News and the commodization of specialized news sources throughout the whole thing, it was glorious. Not that the other cable networks are immune; she also had some things to say about the way CNN is run nowadays.
A few things I felt the authors of the article missed:
“Our parents are grateful because they’re voting,” said Marta Solanas, 27, referring to older Spaniards’ decades spent under the Franco dictatorship. “We’re the first generation to say that voting is worthless.”
The history of radical politics in Spain includes the Anarchist uprising in Catalonia. Her generation is decidedly not the first to say voting is worthless.
There were leaderless discussion circles like Internet chat rooms, governed, he said, by “emoticon” hand gestures like crossed forearms to signal disagreement with the latest speaker, hands held up and wiggling in the air for agreement - the same hand signs used in public assemblies in Spain.The activist meeting hand signals (emoticons wtf?) are an internationally known (with local variation) way of communicating without everyone shouting over each other
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She took some great potshots at Fox News and the commodization of specialized news sources throughout the whole thing, it was glorious. Not that the other cable networks are immune; she also had some things to say about the way CNN is run nowadays.
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“Our parents are grateful because they’re voting,” said Marta Solanas, 27, referring to older Spaniards’ decades spent under the Franco dictatorship. “We’re the first generation to say that voting is worthless.”
The history of radical politics in Spain includes the Anarchist uprising in Catalonia. Her generation is decidedly not the first to say voting is worthless.
There were leaderless discussion circles like Internet chat rooms, governed, he said, by “emoticon” hand gestures like crossed forearms to signal disagreement with the latest speaker, hands held up and wiggling in the air for agreement - the same hand signs used in public assemblies in Spain.The activist meeting hand signals (emoticons wtf?) are an internationally known (with local variation) way of communicating without everyone shouting over each other ( ... )
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