“Today we are not so much communicating as miscommunicating. Or failing to communicate. Or choosing to communicate only with those who think as we do. Or communicating in a manner that is wholly detached from reality. Too often we look only for affirmation of our own ideas rather than opening ourselves to the ideas of others.”
— Marty Baron as transcribed by David Bauder, DIVIDED AMERICA: Constructing our own intellectual ghettos
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