![]() ![]() I think he would begin with some factual observations that he’d send back to the journal on Mars. How would the Martian handle a story like this? Imagine an intelligent Martian-I’m told that by convention, Martians are males, so I’ll refer to it as "he." Suppose that this Martian went to Harvard and Columbia Journalism School and learned all kinds of high-minded things, and actually believes them. Let’s approach this by kind of a thought experiment. So what I’d like to do is take a somewhat different approach to it and ask the question of how should the story be handled, in accord with general principles that are accepted as guidelines: principles of fairness, accuracy, relevance, and so on. ![]() However, it isn’t really an appropriate topic for a talk, and the reason is that it requires too much detailed analysis. It’s been reviewed regularly by FAIR, among others. ![]() Incidentally, by media here I intend the term to be understood pretty broadly, including journals of commentary, analysis, and opinion in fact, the intellectual culture generally. The proper topic for an occasion like this, I suppose, is pretty obvious: It would be the question of how the media have handled the major story of the past months, the issue of the "war on terrorism," so-called, specifically in the Islamic world. ![]() The Journalist from Mars Noam Chomsky Excerpted from Media Control, 2002 ![]()
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