The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy
Truthout.org, September 15, 2009
By Henry A. Giroux
The collapse of journalistic standards finds its counterpart in the rise of civic illiteracy. What this decline in civility, the emergence of mob behavior and the utter blurring in the media between a truth and lie suggests is that we have become one of the most civically illiterate nations on the planet.
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