Hello, and welcome to The Invisible Blog and Podcast. My name is Aayush Murarka, and my goal is over the duration of this podcast and blog is to shed light on some of the issues that we don't see. The media and press are powerful entities, and what they publish greatly affect what people in general, and thereby what people in places of power care about as well. It's also important to remember that media and press organizations are companies, meaning that they rely on viewership and subscriptions to sustain their business. However, issues that aren't spectacular or sensational enough rarely make it to the general public's attention.
"In an age when the media venerate the spectacular, when public policy is shaped primarily around perceived immediate need, a central question is strategic and representational: how can we convert into image and narrative the disasters that are slow moving and long in the making, disasters that are anonymous and that star nobody, disasters that are attritional and of indifferent interest to the sensation-driven technologies of our image-world?" - Rob Nixon, a Rachel Carson Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010
Prof. Nixon was talking about the invisibility of forms of structural violence, but I don't think that I am taking his work out of context when I argue that his sentiments extend to today's everyday media coverage. It's a hard task to seek out these issues, especially for the reasons aforementioned, but with some research and collaboration, we can become more educated and informed participants in our political system.
Thank you for your time.
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