Does intelligence and complexity in political communication stand a chance in todays media culture?
It’s easy to see all the ways that today’s media culture is idiotic and superficial and fails to address issues with the complexity that they demand. But I think that’s always been the case, to a degree. If there ever was a more enlightened general tenor of the public discourse – and I’m not sure there was – then it was at a time when the definition of the public was much more constricted. I don’t mean to say that political communication was equally vapid in every era, but I think that pandering to people’s taste for sex and violence and drama is fairly constant across the ages. What’s interesting is why it takes the different forms it does in different eras. I don’t have much patience for those people who say we’re at a particularly dark moment in our history or that the system has gone irreparably wrong. When I hear talk like that, it strikes me as an opinion formed without much knowledge of the past. What is the Hiett Prize? The Hiett Prize, among the nation’s most prestigious honor
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- Does intelligence and complexity in political communication stand a chance in todays media culture?
