![]() “And that’s the way it is.” Unrestrained by conscience and ethics, news shows are corrupting one of America’s greatest assets-integrity. In some ways, powerfully persuasive news shows have tipped us into chaos, stripped the news of reason and taken down hope that facts matter. Years later these words are chilling and true. He understood the downfall of slanting news with opinion when he wrote “the ethic of the journalist is to recognize one’s prejudices, biases and avoid getting them into print.” So he ended every newscast with the words “and that’s the way it is.” Walter Cronkite delivered the CBS Evening News for 19 years. Unmoved by news alone, constant opinion-spinning by these shows has turned into tornadoes tearing us apart. Gaudy news shows across the spectrum are leading the way. Recklessly used, it can inspire violence and create a trail of travesties that affect the future of a nation. It carries truth, accurate news, and refuses deception. As a tool used responsibly it is a voice for reason, a companion of justice and an aid to conscience. The tide will turn.ĭominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News is a showcase of the power we have handed over to 24-hour news networks. Arts & Letters Daily began in 1998 in the belief that the internet could be a vehicle for meaningful intellectual exchange. But political censorship so strangles free expression and the urge to learn that it rarely works. Today, gay “porn” peddler Michelangelo would be persona non grata here. By extension, ‘Arts and Letters’ is utilised in the study of history, arts and sociology. As an art student in Florence I visited the real guy at the Academia many times. Arts and Letters is understood as a broader category for the study of visual arts, liberal arts and performing arts with the key area of research being within literature. One of the three bronze casts of David is at the Ringling Art Museum in Sarasota. So, no pass for meddling parents who’d dictate what kids can and can’t learn in humanities class. In his draftsman’s mastery of musculature he carved some of the world’s greatest art. Nudity was common in Renaissance art, not to be lewd or to corrupt children, but to realize the fresh aesthetic goal of showing people as human - not wispy stylized or caricatured stand-ins for the Divine, as they had been in Byzantine times.Ĭelebration of the physical body was Michelangelo’s bolt from the Dark Ages. Such knee-jerk prudery can’t be allowed to dictate curricula. But what counts to small minds is that David is nude. If a child can see this famed work, and hear it taught, she might learn that the artist chiseled the slingshot boy huge to reflect the courage it took to take on a giant. Michelangelo’s David embodies the Italian Renaissance. When Florida moms get the world’s greatest sculptor banned as “porn” we know government (and education) by culture war is nuts (“Visitors flock to see Michelangelo’s David after Florida uproar, March 29).
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