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Facebook page for Capital FM, most listeners prefer to use it as a medium to request music or to congratulate the team on their work. There
are, however, also comments on political stories that indicate a steady
stream of engagement with the information provided, and generally of a
much politer level than is often found on western media sites. The toxic
effects of things such as loud and partisan reporting on Donald Trump
or American politics more generally have frequently polluted our engagement with the public sphere, and big tech must take its share of the
blame in such matters. For smaller, daily encounters, however, the future
of journalism is not necessarily so dark.
Notes
1 Cited in John Timbs, Club Life of London, vol. II, London: Richard Bentley, 1866, p. 56.
2 Cited in Pat Rogers, “‘The Monster of Ragusa’: Pope, Addison, and Button’s
Wits”, The Review of English Studies, 67.280(2016), pp. 496–522, p. 503.
3 Markman Ellis, “An Introduction to the Coffee-House: A Discursive
Model”, Language & Communication, 28.2(2008), pp. 156–164.
4 Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An
Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, transl. by Thomas Burger,
London: Polity, 1989, p. 32.
5 Ellis, pp. 162–163.
6 Eric Laurier, and Chris Philo, “‘A parcel of muddling muckworms’: Revisiting Habermas and the English Coffee-Houses”, Social & Cultural Geography, 8.2(2007), pp. 259–281, p. 275.
7 Jason Peacey, Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda During the
English Civil Wars and Interregnum, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 33–39.
8 Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern England,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 9–10.
9 Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas
during the English Revolution, revised edition, London: Penguin, 1991,
pp. 225–226.
10 Jessica Jones “The Self-Radicalization of White Men: ‘Fake News’ and the
Affective Networking of Paranoia”, Communication, Culture & Critique,
11.1(2018), pp. 100–115.
11 Alexander Zaitchek, “Meet Alex Jones”, Rolling Stone, 2 March 2011,
www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meet-alex-jones-175845/.
12 Corky Siezmako, “Infowars’ Alex Jones Is a ‘Performance Artist,’
His Lawyer Says in Divorce Hearing”, NBC News, 17 April 2017,
w w w.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/not-fake-news-I nfowars-alexjones-performance-artist-n747491.
13 Dan Solomon, “Alex Jones’s Attorneys Argue That No Reasonable
Person Would Believe What He Says”, TexasMonthly, 31 July 2018,
www. texasmonthly.com/politics/alex-joness-attorneys-defamation-suitargue-no-reasonable-person-believe-says/.
14 Lee Nichols, “Psst, It’s a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot”,
The Austin Chronicle, 10 December 1999, www.austinchronicle.com/
news/1999-12-10/75039/.
15 Alex Jones, 9-11 Descent into Tyranny: The New World Order’s Dark
Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet, Austin, TX: AEJ Pub, 2002.
Facebook page for Capital FM, most listeners prefer to use it as a medium to request music or to congratulate the team on their work. There
are, however, also comments on political stories that indicate a steady
stream of engagement with the information provided, and generally of a
much politer level than is often found on western media sites. The toxic
effects of things such as loud and partisan reporting on Donald Trump
or American politics more generally have frequently polluted our engagement with the public sphere, and big tech must take its share of the
blame in such matters. For smaller, daily encounters, however, the future
of journalism is not necessarily so dark.
Notes
1 Cited in John Timbs, Club Life of London, vol. II, London: Richard Bentley, 1866, p. 56.
2 Cited in Pat Rogers, “‘The Monster of Ragusa’: Pope, Addison, and Button’s
Wits”, The Review of English Studies, 67.280(2016), pp. 496–522, p. 503.
3 Markman Ellis, “An Introduction to the Coffee-House: A Discursive
Model”, Language & Communication, 28.2(2008), pp. 156–164.
4 Jürgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An
Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, transl. by Thomas Burger,
London: Polity, 1989, p. 32.
5 Ellis, pp. 162–163.
6 Eric Laurier, and Chris Philo, “‘A parcel of muddling muckworms’: Revisiting Habermas and the English Coffee-Houses”, Social & Cultural Geography, 8.2(2007), pp. 259–281, p. 275.
7 Jason Peacey, Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda During the
English Civil Wars and Interregnum, London: Routledge, 2017, pp. 33–39.
8 Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern England,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 9–10.
9 Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas
during the English Revolution, revised edition, London: Penguin, 1991,
pp. 225–226.
10 Jessica Jones “The Self-Radicalization of White Men: ‘Fake News’ and the
Affective Networking of Paranoia”, Communication, Culture & Critique,
11.1(2018), pp. 100–115.
11 Alexander Zaitchek, “Meet Alex Jones”, Rolling Stone, 2 March 2011,
www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/meet-alex-jones-175845/.
12 Corky Siezmako, “Infowars’ Alex Jones Is a ‘Performance Artist,’
His Lawyer Says in Divorce Hearing”, NBC News, 17 April 2017,
w w w.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/not-fake-news-I nfowars-alexjones-performance-artist-n747491.
13 Dan Solomon, “Alex Jones’s Attorneys Argue That No Reasonable
Person Would Believe What He Says”, TexasMonthly, 31 July 2018,
www. texasmonthly.com/politics/alex-joness-attorneys-defamation-suitargue-no-reasonable-person-believe-says/.
14 Lee Nichols, “Psst, It’s a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot”,
The Austin Chronicle, 10 December 1999, www.austinchronicle.com/
news/1999-12-10/75039/.
15 Alex Jones, 9-11 Descent into Tyranny: The New World Order’s Dark
Plans to Turn Earth into a Prison Planet, Austin, TX: AEJ Pub, 2002.