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What We Can Learn About Ourselves After the Paris Attacks

by daviesnow, posted in journalism, politics

   To a greater or lesser extent, we all live in filter bubbles.  Only truly shocking events shake up our view of the world.   The 11/13 Paris attacks were the latest assault on our senses. Intelligence officials, police, politicians and the rest of us are dealing with a new reality  - that ISIS and … Continue reading What We Can Learn About Ourselves After the Paris Attacks

Don’t Put His Views In a Political Box.  What The Media Are Missing About Pope Francis.

by daviesnow, posted in Pope Francis

  New Republic “We in the press are about to over-politicize his visit to America,” writes New York Times columnist David Brooks. How right he is. The media are awash with bland, secular generalizations. The trumpets of left and right are already at blaring with either praise or denunciations of the Pope’s message. House Speaker John … Continue reading Don’t Put His Views In a Political Box.  What The Media Are Missing About Pope Francis.