Comment: ‘It isn’t about Trump - it is all about the systemic corruption of all US institutions - the military, the law enforcement, the judicial and the civil - and all the time, at the heart of all the pyramids of corruption are just the same kind of people’ In order to better illustrate the diverse range of issues covered by the theme of Institutional Corruption, we went through another stage o. [...] The themes which arose from the replies to posts about Hunter Biden showed huge levels of distrust in all directions, in particular right-wing distrust of government institutions such as the FBI, CIA, or DOJ, of the mainstream media, and of Democrats and the current government. [...] If we had a national tax in the UK it would mean paying just a few £ a year, as opposed to the licence fee at the moMent’ These reflections indicate a level of disconnection between media and audiences, with some audiences participating in harassment of and conspiracising about media outlets, as well as parts of the media calling out audiences and other parts of the media. [...] With the industrialisation of print in the 19th Century and the creation of mass media, the media landscape shifted from peer-to-peer and ‘conversational’, to ‘top-down and centralised’ (Professor Jeff Jarvis, Director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York). [...] Canela described the expansion of the online information ecosystem as the ‘biggest positive revolution for freedom of expression since Gutenberg’, highlighting the positives of the internet and social media as a force for democratisation in the production and distribution of information.
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