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Self-Censored Questions by Career Questioners
Nader, Ralph
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/04/self-censored-questions-by-career-questioners/Date Written: 2017-04-05 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20687 I've always been intrigued by the major questions not asked by reporters at press conferences, not asked by legislators at public hearings or even the questions citizens at town meetings don't ask public officials. It's not that they do not know about or could not easily become informed enough about a given issue and ask substantive questions. It's just that so many taboos are packed into these questioners' ideological mindset, career goals or concern with what other people over them might think. Maybe it is a culturally-rooted fear of challenging entrenched power brokers. Subject Headings |