The economy narrated as a moral tale, this is what the news is. - TopicsExpress



          

The economy narrated as a moral tale, this is what the news is. Big and little stories that speak to the moral judgement of the viewer personify the mysterious and abstruct life of numbers as fortunes flash round the gobe. The public mind is not attuned to the interactions of money, so all this has to be translated into a moral story, or better still and nearer to home, a personal story. It is this concentration on the basic and the simple, this talking down to the population, this packaging in what journalists imagine to be human coverage, that the workings of the world become even more obscure to the public, and not in the least clearer, as the term information might be thought to imply
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:03:12 +0000

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