The media can’t let us take democratic rights for granted
The media can’t let us take democratic rights for granted
- October 22, 2014
- An op-ed by Jennifer Ramos, political science visiting researcher, is featured by Zocalo Public Square Oct. 22, 2014
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From Zocalo Public Square:
The media – a so-called “fourth branch of government” – has an obligation to remind
us not of our partisan, ethnic, gender, or geographic identities, but of our democratic
identity. … Jennifer M. Ramos is associate professor of political science at Loyola
Marymount University and visiting associate researcher at UC Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/10/22/can-sensationalism-save-democracy/ideas/up-for-discussion/#Jennifer+M.+Ramos+.
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