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este texto no weblog de Jay Rosen - News Judgment Old and News Judgment New: American Nicholas Berg Beheaded. Now What?:
"I think it's strange to go around telling the news media what to show and not show, based on your predictions of how other people--apparently less capable of independent judgment--will react to the news. It's strange, it's intellectually hazardous (your predictions can be wrong, and thus your conclusions too) and it risks inflantalizing your fellow citizens. You shouldn't do it, because if you keep doing it you will soon be talking about "the masses" and what they will swallow. Soon after that you will be talking about what the masses should be fed. I don't trust anyone's argument--left, right, middle, fringe--when it assumes that others (the big audience, the mass public, the voters overall) will react with less nuance, intelligence, or critical thought than the writer and the writer's friends. To me it's a warning sign: anti-democratic attitude here in evidence."
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