{"id":3906,"date":"2013-05-11T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T12:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2013-05-08T08:27:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T12:27:57","slug":"worldviews-2013-conference-and-the-war-on-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/05\/11\/worldviews-2013-conference-and-the-war-on-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldviews 2013 conference and the war on information"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Conference<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a war on information in our country. On the media, on academics, on libraries, on archives, on the census \u2013 the list keeps going. We need to understand the \u2018why\u2019 of things, and cutting away our ability to make informed decisions will invariably derail our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Westheimer at the Worldviews Conference on Media and Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I can’t say anything better than this quote, except maybe, that Canada is not the only country in this situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is a war on information in our country. On the media, on academics, on libraries, on archives, on the census \u2013 the list keeps going. We need to understand the \u2018why\u2019 of things, and cutting away our ability to make informed decisions will invariably derail our country.\u201d -Westheimer at the Worldviews Conference on Media… Continue reading Worldviews 2013 conference and the war on information<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10484,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/04\/12\/col-logan-weston\/","url_meta":{"origin":3906,"position":0},"title":"Col. 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