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Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, delivered the commencement address for the School of Media and Communication at Temple University. The following is a condensed transcript of his speech.
Media is in a state of upheaval. Communication — people to people — is in a state of breakdown. You are the ones to repair it, if you are willing.
Today we are not so much communicating as miscommunicating. Or failing to communicate. Or choosing to communicate only with those who think as we do. Or communicating in a manner that is wholly detached from reality.
Too often we look only for affirmation of our own ideas rather than opening ourselves to the ideas of others.