[Peace-discuss] MillerComm Todd Gitlin presentation on Social Media, Feb. 7

[Carl G. Estabrook]

It's been easy for years not to endorse Gitlin's views on anything. Here the late Alex Cockburn does it without effort in 2002:

'Todd Gitlin has made a career out of issuing advisories about the "hard
left", the "Old Left" and other. Though Gitlin usually pretends that
he's trying to counsel the left towards improved conduct under the
Gitlin Seal of Approval, I don't think he has much interest in the left,
as anything other than raw material for his unctuous punditry.

'In a recent Mother Jones Gitlin reports that at a rally outside the UN
he spotted placards saying "No Sanctions, No Bombing". Snappy, you say.
Exactly the message a peace movement might want to get across. Gitlin
disagrees. His preferred placard would be the most heavily footnoted
text since Lynn White Jr's history of the stirrup. Like Cooper, Gitlin
craves for respectability which means that he wants the placard to make
it clear that (a) Saddam bears responsibility for his country's plight,
(b), the bombings of Iraq since 1991 by the US (tactfully described by
Gitlin, echoing the DoD, as "no fly zone sorties") are okay. Tough
placard to design, and pretty heavy, if you factor in the square footage
required for Gitlin's text."

See also, from the same era, <http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/06/20/todd-gitlin-s-condescending-screed/>.

--CGE 

On Jan 10, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote:

> Forwarding does not equal endorsement of Gitlin's views on anything, but for people who like this sort of thing, this is just the sort of thing that they would like, as Lincoln might have said. 
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> Todd Gitlin, will give a CAS/MillerComm presentation, SOCIAL MEDIA MAY
> BE MEDIA BUT THEY ARE NOT A SOCIETY,  Thursday, February 7, 4:00pm,
> Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory, Urbana.
> 
> Todd Gitlin is professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the
> Ph.D. program in Communications at  Columbia University. He holds
> degrees in three different subjects: mathematics (B.A., Harvard),
> political science (M.A., Michigan), and sociology (Ph.D., Berkeley).
> Along the way, he became a political activist in the New Left of the
> 1960s, contributed to the so-called underground press, and began to
> write books. Gitlin's newest book is "Occupy Nation:  The Roots, the
> Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street"  forthcoming as an
> e-book in April 2012.
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> This presentation is free and open to the public.  For more
> information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or
> www.cas.illinois.edu.
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