A blog dedicated to my students, to help them resist the temptations of mass media, especially due to corporate influence; to encourage them to nurture and sustain their own consciences; to learn how to keep listening to their inner voice. Eventually, to build a network of journalists who think for themselves and will not, therefore, sell themselves as the "stenographers of corporate power" in the pursuit of "manufacturing consent" or fabricating public opinion.
By Joseph M. Pinto
As I finished reading the last of the fourteen prose-poems in this 85-page reflection by Vinita Deshmukh, entitled Lady Corona , on the reality of the Covid-19 pandemic, I began to re-read the first poem. And my personal beliefs got reinforced: