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Conflict and Renewal: Europe Transformed. Essays in Honour of Wolfgang Petritsch
Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2007, 407 pp.


Chapter 9. Media and Communications in a Globalised World
Why We Need a Global Karl Kraus and John Stewart

by Patrik-Paul Volf


"Contrary to opinions that we need more information, more analysis, more reporting on a global scale to get to terms with a complex, globalised world, we should look at what we can actually achieve:
- We need formats on TV deconstructing TV itself.
- We need to ridicule the myth that a picture is per se objective.
- We need to do this in an entertaining way, as information distribu-tion has become entertainment.
- Satire is the best way of bringing out the truth.
- And finally, we need a global Karl Kraus and Jon Stewart. It's our only hope."


Patrik-Paul Volf is a Spokesman for the Green Party in the Austrian Parliament