“One response, and perhaps the most important one, which should fundamentally shape our lives, is simply refusing to concede that what is given in our news is the way the world is. It is a medium that, among its exemplary reports, also emphasizes the unusual, the conflictual, the dramatic, not the usual, the routine, the everyday, that marks most of our lives. It does not reflect the world that we actually live in each day.”

Interview with John Cleary on Australian Broadcasting Corporation on journalism and religion.

A review of Blind Spot by Vincent Carroll.