http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/11/sandy-and-three-genres-of-%e2%80%9creporting%e2%80%9d/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/11/sandy-and-three-genres-of-%e2%80%9creporting%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-26111 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 06:31:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=16310#comment-26111 I read this piece in Rome, deeply concerned about my friends and family back home. I really appreciate how the three genres of reporting inform my understanding of what happened and the dimensions of the catastrophe. I wonder about the problem of factuality in the meme images,
and their relationships with more conventional social media and mass media representations. After all, in the political sphere it is the rising disregard to facts which is an important and possibly consequential part of the politics of Fox, the Republicans and Romney – Ryan, and company.

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