Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The Media Should Quit Trying to Make It One

Covid-19 is not a ‘generation war’
The Covid-19 pandemic will have huge consequences: for human life and health, for the global economy, for people’s livelihoods. Coping with these consequences largely depends on developing a strong sense of social solidarity: drawing on the ties that bind us to our communities, friends and families, and setting aside petty differences and grievances.

This can mean many things, and will need to take many creative forms. But, however we do it, we must bring young people into the project of meeting this challenge, by encouraging the best in them rather than presuming the worst.