Media Meltdown and also Media Bias 101

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, guy incognito said:

And too many STEM people are similarly indifferent to if not outright contemptuous of the arts and humanities.

You can see the roots of a lot of our problems in that siloing. On the one hand, well-meaning humanists with no clue as to how things work; on the other, antisocial technocrats with no check on their ambitions.

Yeah - engineering schools in particular should not (but too often do) just punt on forcing their students into wider distribution requirements. There are humanities studies that can catch the interest of the technically oriented beyond just getting a grade - such as Rhetoric (not Lit), Philosophy (not Soc), Music, etc.

Edited 1 hour ago by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

6 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

LOL - those are not all victories. NBC is better off for the exit of Chuck Todd, and the public has stepped up to save NPR, which now that they are off the Federal dole, and no longer have to worry about losing it, are no longer looking over their shoulders about whether they need to shade their work.

[mtutiger]

58 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

LOL - those are not all victories. NBC is better off for the exit of Chuck Todd, and the public has stepped up to save NPR, which now that they are off the Federal dole, and no longer have to worry about losing it, are no longer looking over their shoulders about whether they need to shade their work.

ABC isn't really a victory either, especially given how the Kimmel ordeal played out and how they have responded since