What does it mean to take seriously, in our present conjuncture, the thought that cultural politics and questions of culture, of discourse, and of metaphor are absolutely deadly political questions?
-Stuart Hall, “Subjects in History”
"What is at issue here is not, 'What are the facts?' but rather, how are the facts to be described in order to sanction one mode of explaining them rather than another?"
-Hayden White, "Fictions of Factual Representation"
“[D]iscussions of the practice and study of journalism have lost sight of the varied forms through which journalism makes its name. Particular, the communicative role played by journalism has pushed aside both its cultural and critical functions. This has prevented the establishment of a broader understanding of all that journalism does beyond the information relay established via its communicative role”
-Barbie Zelizer, "Journalism, Communication, Culture, Critique"
"Don't start from the good old things, but the bad new ones." -Bertolt Brecht
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