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COVID 19 Citizen's Commission  

The Media: overview and strategic plan 

“A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. “

James Madison, Letter to W.T. Barry (1822-08-04).

“... journalism - that used to tell a grand, unfurling narrative - now also just relays disjointed and often wildly contradictory fragments of information.”      Adam Curtis

This video looks  at Jurgen Habermas' book, the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, and its consequences today, especially in relation to questions about the internet.

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