The media neither leads nor follows, it is. It is part of the complex
interelationships of all communication that have no clear causalities or
direction.
This list itself is a medium, and we ourselves through other influences
construct the way we view varios media as much as they constructs that view
in turn.
Larry
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> Hi all
>
> David wrote
>
> At 04:32 PM 26/02/2002 +1100, you wrote:
> >To Dennis Lang: There is no media backlash to the ADA only the media's
> >poor reporting of events due to their lack of understanding of
> disability.
> >And there are way too many variables affecting the labor market
> to connect
> >the ADA with so-called decrease of employment. Ten years after the Civil
> >Rights Act of 1964 was passed there was still considerable employment of
> >African Americans. Your student's thesis that disability politics is
> >causing the disability community to be seen as "the other" is quaint. We
> >have always been seen as the other, the tragic, the pitiable. Did the
> >Civil Rights Movement and the Feminist Movement make African
> Americans and
> >women the other? Your student needs some background in American politics.
> >David Pfeiffer
> >
>
> A study into how the media DID report employment and ADA stuff and how or
> if that impacted on the attitudes of the "generalised other" (ie. the rest
> of them other than the other) and thus the implicated the employment of
> peeps with disability would be interesting if it hasn't already been done.
> What role does the media play in the construction of mythology and how
> pervasive is the mythology?
>
>
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> >University of Hawaii at Manoa
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> >I gave up cynicism when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel
> >Peace Prize....Tom Lehrer
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