After the Paris Attacks: Live News Should Challenge Narratives, Not Desperately Try to Create Them | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

After the Paris Attacks: Live News Should Challenge Narratives, Not Desperately Try to Create Them | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community



 "Being a guest on a major TV news program is not an offer to come up
with on-the-spot bullshit with a guarantee of immunity from
interrogation. It is a position of social and cultural power made
available to very few people, and should be treated as such."

"News
is about story-telling power, and events such as the mass murders in
Paris amplify that power by increasing our focus (in times of extreme
emotion) upon journalistic output." (Screenshot)