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VIRTUOUS REALITY: HOW AMERICA SURRENDERED DISCUSSION OF MORAL VALUES TO OPPORTUNISTS, NITWITS, AND BLOCKHEADS LIKE WI
Katz, Jon
1997 31703 This book is for nervous parents, neo-Luddites, kids, journalists, rappers, intellectuals, digital wanna-bes, Webheads, MTV users and banners, Beavis & Butt-head fans, survivors of the 1996 presidential election and buyers of William Bennett's moral fables. Here's some of what it's about:. Public discussions of culture and new media are hysterical, confusing and irrational. We have to start over. We blame our ascending, technologically distributed culture - music, TV shows, movies, computers - for crime, civic apathy and other social woes, while their complex causes and expensive solutions are ignored. Journalism has lost its moral moorings. Its new corporate owners have taken it far from its original purpose, as practiced by Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, and transformed it into a timid, stuffy, "objective" and increasingly destructive entity. We need to understand the good things the information revolution is bringing and not just wring our hands over the bad. Consider the way interactivity is democratizing the spread of information. How the Internet is transforming science and research. How individuals can now carry on their own dialogues, instead of submitting to the suffocating dictates of three networks and a few newspapers. How citizens have the machinery to join in the discussions of political life. Children need more, not less, access to technology, culture and information. We have been led into a false choice - the old culture versus the new - by shallow politicians and manipulable journalists. Sensible people can pick what they want and need from both cultures, each offering vast amounts of both excellence and garbage. FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly The new media, led by the Internet, is weakening the control news outlets such as newspapers and television have over the delivery of information, observes Katz, who argues that in an effort to retain their influence, the old media guard has criticized the new technologies for lowering the standards of journalism and contributing to the breakdown of morality in America. He further claims that by continually criticizing Generation X, the old guard has helped fuel the culture wars in the country and that the established media should not be surprised that few young people read newspapers or watch TV news. But rather than distancing people from information, the new media is giving people a greater chance to make their voices heard, Katz says. It is this plethora of new outlets that scares not only the old media but conservatives like former Education Secretary William Bennett, who charge that the new media is encouraging today's youths to engage in all sorts of illegal and amoral activities such as gang violence and conceiving out-of-wedlock babies. Katz, the media critic for Wired magazine, rejects those arguments and cites a number of other factors contributing to problems of the young, such as one-parent homes, poor schools and the proliferation of drugs and guns. Readers who are already fans of the new media will agree with much of what Katz writes, but it is doubtful that he will convert those who think the new media is the enemy. (Feb.) Library Journal In many ways, Katz has the perfect credentials to write this book. He has been a reporter and editor for the Boston Globe and the Washington Post, a television producer, and a mystery novelist. Now he's media critic with the ultrahip cyberculture magazine Wired. His central arguments are that old media (newspapers, broadcast TV, etc.) can coexist with new media (the Internet and its online cousins), but not without big changes, and that kids are smarter than "mediaphobes" think and are not psychologically damaged by what they encounter in the media. What detracts from his views is an often self-righteous tone and a needlessly nasty edge to his attacks on values guru William Bennett. Only the most complete media and cyberspace collections will find Random House Publishing Group 0679449132 / 9780679449133
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