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We have already explored the fundamental definition of what media is. Media has received many mentions due to being present in all things in some shape, form or fashion. For instance, before human media existed, media existed.
Someone, “an expert” of some sort, said the media has a difficult job to explain something to the less knowledgeable.
I say, the only job the media (the limited media) has is to present facts and perspectives while questioning and addressing contradictions and shortcomings, plus encouraging expansions beyond repetitive boilerplate understandings, approaches and styles. In an optimal state, media would encourage the seeking of understandings from all forms of media and all sources of these forms. Media would itself disavow the notion and importance of mainstream over marginal media and also disavow professional over amateur. These demarcations are fundamentally dishonest except when a group of media functions dishonestly and deserves a separate identifying name. Thus media's job is to not simply to forward information or parrot information but rather to promote understandings by being a part of the conversation of learning. The media is supposed to do this by being an attentive listener and responder in a never-ending conversation taking place between many participants.
Unfortunately the limited media chooses the narrative of the status quo governing powers and culture. The media fails in regards to the universal perspective which is the same as the fundamental perspective. Thus the journalistic reporter based media (the limited media) fails in regards to being objective (holistic and balanced), thus the media has a hard time explaining larger more involved topics because the media has a hard time understanding the larger more involved topic of life and existence. The media is merely a microcosm and magnification of the general thinking and behavior of the citizens. The media is supposed to call out the media for publishing reports full of lies and inconsistent information. We need to hear more truth about how the media flat out lies. For instance the media continues to fail and not self-correct in using cherry-picked numbers for certain cities to promote a false national narrative as to Africans being disproportionately susceptible to Covid-19. Not only has the USA system failed, but also the global system. The system has failed at its core, its reason for existing. Any analysis of the limited media and the system to which it pledges allegiance, will be woefully inadequate and produce aberrations of understandings if that analysis does not examine, or at least implicate, the culture of societies and all their major institutions. Sadly, producing and perpetuating these aberrations are currently what the corporate limited media is supposed to do, along with several other forms of co-conspirator media, especially the media called education.
