{"id":61472,"date":"2015-08-03T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=61472"},"modified":"2015-07-24T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:17:25","slug":"the-news-media-as-a-masterful-means-of-multiple-meaning-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/the-news-media-as-a-masterful-means-of-multiple-meaning-making\/","title":{"rendered":"The News Media as a Masterful Means of Multiple Meaning-Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>A Rhymed Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The News Media are supposed to inform<br \/>\nAre they also expected to transform?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we see the Media as realistic?<br \/>\nDo we also take it as futuristic?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we respect the Media for journalistic quality?<br \/>\nDo we also commend it for communicative dignity?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we praise the Media for the values they invoke?<br \/>\nDo we also hail them for the challenges they provoke?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we like the constructive acts the Media propose?<br \/>\nDo we also abhor the destructive acts the Media expose?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we support the Media when \u00a0DIGNIjournalism they elevate?<br \/>\nDo we also applaud the Media when through Multimedia Literacy they educate?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we expect the Media to help nurture interlinguistic and intercultural sensitivity?<br \/>\nDo we also entrust the Media with helping prevent interactive insensitivity?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we look up to the Media as a social force at the service of compassion-enhancing?<br \/>\nDo we also consider the Media as a political force serving Global Citizenship-advancing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we perceive the Media as a masterful means of multiple meaning-making?<br \/>\nDo we also view the Media as sources of both good deeds and misdeeds news making?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do we question the Media when their reporting seems slanted?<br \/>\nDo we also criticize the Media when their news takes something for granted?<br \/>\n________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, Ph.D. is an applied peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. He has degrees in Languages, Law, and Linguistics. He is Professor Emeritus at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco where he is active in the Dom H\u00e9lder Camara Human Rights Commission. He is one of the pioneers in Linguistic Rights (author of 1984 <\/em>Plea for a Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights)<em> and in the emerging area of Peace Linguistics. Currently he is President of the Board, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Brasil Am\u00e9rica (<a href=\"www.abaweb.org\">www.abaweb.org<\/a>). <\/em><em>He can be reached at fcardosogomesdematos@gmail.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rhymed Reflection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}