Contemporary epistemological problems

I think this 8-minute film encapsulates some of the most pressing epistemological problems of our age:

EPIC

Thanks to reader dwilder for the tip.

Comments

[Lindsay]

To take a protagonist of the video, if the NYT is our standard, then we get sometimes great reporting but only about things the editors think are relevant and the corporation doesn't object to---and "great" doesn't happen too often.

If EPIC were created, it would not necessarily be any worse than Fox TV (though it certainly could be), and---here's the crucial bit IMHO---it would be susceptible to being shaped through a direct, personalized, grassroots interaction. Networked information technology has a hugely positive potential for democracy---and encryption outstrips government and other monitoring---but we have to take the possibilities into our own, organized hands.