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Media Freedom … Paradox

I am really impressed by the notion that Thomas Eland initiated in his article, “Critical Thinking, Deviant Knowledge and the Alternative Press”, “we don’t often think much about how we know what we know about the world.”

I agree with the author that our precedent judgements- which is most often not convenient- govern the way we handle significant issues concerning other societies.

I believe in media as – cause, result, and effective tool for inspiring the “conscience” of nation through presenting the information “knowledge” in a neutral form, in order to give every one the right to initiate and then practice his own ideas as well as other rights.

The theme of our recent time is a world full of opposed interests motivated by hidden agenda of politics and economy, which is necessarily influence the knowledge negatively.

Let us fight the “command” media by the Anti one!

Critical Thinking: Pros And Cons.

I agree with Eland Thomas about how critical thinking is important, moreover, I agree, that information which is presented for public censored and sorted and never reflect for hundred percent the reality. De omnibus dubitandum – come under question, thats what Rene Descartes offered in this case and I, personally, take it. I understand the author’s idea about nonprofit press ether, but in his proclamation (because it is what it is) he forgets two very important facts: underground press and publishing agency can be corrupt too, and it’s almost impossible to be clear and critical, when we talk about Hot News, like, for example, couple days ago, plain crushed somewhere in Asia, and some agency told it was a plain, and some report it was a helicopter, and, I bet, some of them just ignored it. Critical thinking is good for everything, except quick respond, mass media, especially periodical part of it, will not survive without gate keeping and assortment control from the side; from the other side, because critical thinking its method of logical thinking, and moreover, its scientific method – its take time and certain level of understanding from person who use it. Government control over media happened not only because somebody tried to keep some information in secret, but because majority will not understand it, or even worse – understand it wrong.

Another two articles describe and explain zines as a genre of literature. Which is, in my opinion definitely not new, authors just forget about salon writing of eighteen and ninety century, when people did absolutely the same and even at the same form.