Jim Wallis is one of the most talented interviewees I've ever known. He knows how to get substance, not just spin, into a sound byte, and he has an amazing ability to think on his feet. His recent interview with Jon Stewart in the July issue of Sojourners magazine shows he's good on the other side of the desk
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
Good reflections here from Brian - since reading the Wallis/Stewart interview, I've been thinking along similar lines about how badly the news media is failing us as a society - not just failing to give the information we need, but by bombarding us with incessant information that actually demolishes our ability to have public discourse about issues that really matter; it seems we can't even tell the difference anymore between issues that matter and the ones that don't. Also been thinking about how (as Stewart pointed out) when you're doing 17-18 hours a day of live TV coverage, you have no time for reflection, contemplation, deliberation, etc, which is of course related; and about how sometimes it takes a talking ass to speak the truth in such an absurd culture as ours. I am thankful for Stewart's voice of criticism, and glad that Sojouners has recognized its value as well.
[In reference to the first sentence of this post, I also wanted to point out to the author that Wallis is the interviewER, and Stewart the interviewEE.]
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
Good reflections here from Brian - since reading the Wallis/Stewart interview, I've been thinking along similar lines about how badly the news media is failing us as a society - not just failing to give the information we need, but by bombarding us with incessant information that actually demolishes our ability to have public discourse about issues that really matter; it seems we can't even tell the difference anymore between issues that matter and the ones that don't. Also been thinking about how (as Stewart pointed out) when you're doing 17-18 hours a day of live TV coverage, you have no time for reflection, contemplation, deliberation, etc, which is of course related; and about how sometimes it takes a talking ass to speak the truth in such an absurd culture as ours. I am thankful for Stewart's voice of criticism, and glad that Sojouners has recognized its value as well.
[In reference to the first sentence of this post, I also wanted to point out to the author that Wallis is the interviewER, and Stewart the interviewEE.]
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
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Good reflections here from Brian - since reading the Wallis/Stewart interview, I've been thinking along similar lines about how badly the news media is failing us as a society - not just failing to give the information we need, but by bombarding us with incessant information that actually demolishes our ability to have public discourse about issues that really matter; it seems we can't even tell the difference anymore between issues that matter and the ones that don't. Also been thinking about how (as Stewart pointed out) when you're doing 17-18 hours a day of live TV coverage, you have no time for reflection, contemplation, deliberation, etc, which is of course related; and about how sometimes it takes a talking ass to speak the truth in such an absurd culture as ours. I am thankful for Stewart's voice of criticism, and glad that Sojouners has recognized its value as well.
[In reference to the first sentence of this post, I also wanted to point out to the author that Wallis is the interviewER, and Stewart the interviewEE.]
Good reflections here from Brian - since reading the Wallis/Stewart interview, I've been thinking along similar lines about how badly the news media is failing us as a society - not just failing to give the information we need, but by bombarding us with incessant information that actually demolishes our ability to have public discourse about issues that really matter; it seems we can't even tell the difference anymore between issues that matter and the ones that don't. Also been thinking about how (as Stewart pointed out) when you're doing 17-18 hours a day of live TV coverage, you have no time for reflection, contemplation, deliberation, etc, which is of course related; and about how sometimes it takes a talking ass to speak the truth in such an absurd culture as ours. I am thankful for Stewart's voice of criticism, and glad that Sojouners has recognized its value as well.
[In reference to the first sentence of this post, I also wanted to point out to the author that Wallis is the interviewER, and Stewart the interviewEE.]
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
The US media today covers only a very narrow range of issues connected to a very narrow range of countries, all reported from the same well-defined perspective. Investigative reporting costs money, and the bulk of money for media comes from corporations (advertising). Therefore, the media reports news from the corporate perspective alone, and when Big Business would prefer to keep an issue out of the public spotlight, it is kept out.
If you want legitimate information about vitally important issues, you have to look into the foreign news media.
