Keith Goetzman is a senior editor for Utne Reader and is a veteran journalist who has worked for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Rake, the Twin Cities Reader, and many other publications.
Keith blogged a panel at the National Conference on Media Reform featuring author David Sirota (excerpt below). Keith's entire post is at Utne here.
"Sirota, author of The Uprising,
added a fresh twist to the discussion. Many of us, he noted, see the
media as a monolithic force, and we await the news sent down from
"Media Mount Olympus." But that passive role is exactly what has
strengthened
the role of the "paternalistic" media.
We have the chance to be our own media," he says, and we ought to seize it. For another audience, this might have sounded like a simplistic bromide. But for this crowd, made up largely of indie media activists and advocates, it sounded plausible, and when they filed out of the room, you suspected they might just go out and do it."
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