David Foster @KnowTheSystem

Know The System, Inc. is out to fix public discourse and undermine polarization through media reform and citizen education. knowthesystem.org Durham, NC Joined June 2009

Tweets

781
Followers

480
Following

905
Likes

724

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

9 months ago

Final installment! I tried to put it into context given the re-election of Donald Trump and his newly appointed FCC head, Brendan Carr. #BrendanCarr #Media #Polarization allsides.com/blog/who-will-…

0 0 1 60 0

Check out my series on AllSides, about ambitious solutions to our dysfunctional public discourse. (Link is to my website, which has a user-friendly list of links to all the articles so far.) knowthesystem.org/my-series-on-a…

0 0 2 56 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

11 months ago

The news media let us down during the past year. Well...I guess they do every year. My next series article proposes drastic changes to the Fourth Estate. On AllSides Perspective. @AllSidesNow allsides.com/blog/proposal-…

0 0 0 47 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

12 months ago

My next article is about an initiative to provide a new educational resource for the citizenry, that citizens on both sides will actually want to go to. allsides.com/blog/proposal-… Why now? Two reasons. The first, certainly, is because the societal disruption of social media,…

0 0 0 37 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

a year ago

My next article is about an initiative to tame social media. (You heard me.) A rather paternalistic approach (maternalistic?) of getting on social media and publicly, gently chiding divisive rhetoric. The Schoolmarm! It is the 5th installment of my series on fixing public…

0 0 0 69 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

a year ago

Here, finally, is my first national proposal. A constitutional, technically-feasible way of injecting counterspeech into major political media platforms. I call it "Bust Open the Silos." #polarization #media #democracy @AllSidesNow allsides.com/blog/proposal-…

0 0 0 53 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

a year ago

And here is the third article. My next articles in the series will detail major proposals for fixing public discourse in the US. allsides.com/blog/pushing-m…

0 0 0 57 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

a year ago

My second and third articles on AllSides are about the obstacles to media reform posed by corporate impunity and by perverse ideological stances towards the First Amendment. Here's the second. allsides.com/blog/democrati…

0 0 0 52 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

a year ago

I'm publishing a series of articles based on my book. (Thanks, AllSides!) Here is the first in the series, just out. allsides.com/blog/brawny-so… @AllSidesNow

0 1 1 56 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

2 years ago

New blog post, reviewing "Democracy When The People Are Thinking" by the iconic James Fishkin. It's challenging, unfortunately, to imagine deliberative events making a serious difference in our era of cheap speech. @StanfordCDDRL #deliberation knowthesystem.org/fishkin-and-na…

0 1 2 117 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

2 years ago

Check out my new book. It details seven national proposals, together aimed at taming our media environment and fixing public discourse. (hint: entire Introduction is visible in Read Sample) #polarization #media #socialmedia amazon.com/dp/B0CV9D37CQ

0 0 0 221 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

2 years ago

New blog post, reviewing "Communicating the Future" by Lance Bennett. Important communication strategies for a Green New Deal, learning from the way neoliberalism was developed and promoted prior to the 1980s. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction @LanceBennett1 knowthesystem.org/a-different-st…

0 1 3 206 0

David Foster @KnowTheSystem

2 years ago

This polemic by @bariweiss ("End DEI") has gotten lots of attention. I found, though, that it was easier to understand if I appended "Because I said so" to the end of each paragraph. tabletmag.com/sections/news/…