{"id":13880,"date":"2014-10-11T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=13880"},"modified":"2014-10-11T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:26:11","slug":"media-conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=13880","title":{"rendered":"The Media and Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://worklivelaos.com/old_morning_market/">Buy Tramadol Without Prescription</a> <em>The Nation<\/em> has published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/181919\/government-war-against-reporter-james-risen?page=0,3\">excellent article<\/a>\u00a0on the U.S. government&#8217;s vendetta against James Risen, a <em>New York Times <\/em>investigative journalist. The campaign is part of a larger effort by the Obama Administrations to punish government whistleblowers and &#8220;intimidate other investigative reporters,\u201d as Pentagon Papers whistleblower\u00a0Daniel Ellsberg told\u00a0<em>The Nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/about/"></a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/lovejoyaward\/past-recipients\/2014-lovejoy-award-recipient-james-risen\/\" target=\"_blank\">This week<\/a> Risen gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colby.edu\/lovejoyaward\/past-recipients\/2014-lovejoy-award-recipient-james-risen\/james-risen-address\/\" target=\"_blank\">talk<\/a> at Colby College in Maine that cautioned against groupthink in the media. He cited the early days of \u00a0the abolitionist movement in the 1830s, before it had become &#8220;a significant political force,&#8221; during a time when slavery was still a &#8220;bedrock political assumption of the United States.&#8221; This period, when abolition writers were outside the mainstream, should be studied, Risen said, for<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://andiroberts.com/resourcehub/">https://andiroberts.com/resourcehub/</a> what it\u2019s really like to challenge the cement-like certainty of the conventional wisdom of the day, especially when it is constantly being reinforced by a mainstream press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
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<a href="http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536"></a> Risen is talking specifically about the rise of the national security state since 9\/11, and how anyone who challenges its underlying assumption&#8211;the need for a global war on terror&#8211;&#8220;is considered dangerous and maybe even a traitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://disneycruisinggroup.com/releases/"></a> Are there parallel examples in the science and society realm, where certain assumptions are difficult to challenge because they are reinforced by mainstream media?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/specialties/immigration-anxiety/">https://growthjourneytherapy.com/specialties/immigration-anxiety/</a> The Nation has published an excellent article\u00a0on the U.S. government&#8217;s vendetta against James Risen, a New York Times investigative journalist. The campaign is part of a larger effort by the Obama Administrations to punish government whistleblowers and &#8220;intimidate other investigative reporters,\u201d as Pentagon Papers whistleblower\u00a0Daniel Ellsberg told\u00a0The Nation. This week Risen gave a talk at&#8230;<span> <a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/area-attractions/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=13880\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1250,1306,1367,1581],"class_list":["post-13880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-journalism","tag-media","tag-national-security","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}