{"id":4345,"date":"2008-08-05T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/08\/todd-gitlin-argues-that-nonstop-media-stimuli-undermine-democracy-and-foster-a-society-of-disposable-emotions\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T18:43:35","slug":"todd-gitlin-argues-that-nonstop-media-stimuli-undermine-democracy-and-foster-a-society-of-disposable-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/08\/todd-gitlin-argues-that-nonstop-media-stimuli-undermine-democracy-and-foster-a-society-of-disposable-emotions\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd Gitlin argues that nonstop media stimuli undermine democracy and foster a society of disposable emotions."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/free\/v54\/i48\/48a01001.htm?utm_source=at&amp;utm_medium=en\">Todd Gitlin, who argues that nonstop media stimuli undermine democracy and foster a society of disposable emotions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By ANDREA L. FOSTER<\/p>\n<p>Todd Gitlin, who argues that nonstop media stimuli undermine democracy and foster a society of disposable emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gitlin, a sociologist, directs an interdisciplinary program in communications at Columbia University. His book Media Unlimited faults the media for promoting a culture of celebrity worship and paranoia. It was first published in 2001, and a new edition was recently released. Mr. Gitlin blogs for Talking Points Memo Cafe and the Sunday Watch column of the Columbia Journalism Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chronicle: Todd Gitlin, who argues that nonstop media stimuli undermine democracy and foster a society of disposable emotions. By ANDREA L. FOSTER Todd Gitlin, who argues that nonstop media stimuli undermine democracy and foster a society of disposable emotions. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/08\/todd-gitlin-argues-that-nonstop-media-stimuli-undermine-democracy-and-foster-a-society-of-disposable-emotions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}