Tx Street Legal Buggy

Rumors have received little attention from researchers political communication. Perhaps because the nature of the talk is indeed particular: its origin is often unknown as destructive as is their movement. On the day the English stock market has plummeted by rumors that Spain is in a situation not unlike that of Greece, comes to mind giving notice of the recently published book by Cass R. Sunstein rumor mill: How to spread falsehoods, why we believe them and what can be done (Ed. Debate, 2010).

Sunstein is known among political scientists for their studies on the political polarization that favors Internet, the most cited of all the entitled Republic 2.0. In his new book, the lawyer at the University of Chicago reflects on the unusual attention and credibility that were hearsay as suggesting that Obama was not born on U.S. soil, which would have disqualified as a candidate for president of the United States. The reader can not help but recall the recent scandal over the alleged mutual infidelity between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, singer and model Carla Bruni.

Sunstein has now the opportunity and the challenge of implementing their cookbook solutions to combat rumors. Is the Administrator Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) , a federal agency that oversees the quality and accessibility of government information. Interestingly, as regards the recession that published his book on the New Yorker magazine , Sunstein himself lived in the flesh a campaign that sought to curb his appointment official position of the Government as Obama.

As point for reflection, it should stop at the role it could play in the international press sudden depreciation in the English market. Nothing published on Herald Tribune or Les Echos this morning was a novelty (Zapatero's reluctance to freeze public sector wages or relax the rules governing the labor market), but the surprising coincidence of several news about the possible spread English Greek virus preceded the Madrid stock market crash.

"Only lies need accomplices," the wise Greek proverb. Actually he manages very well alone, but often too late triumphs. Rumors destroy lives and, in view of what happens in the markets, haciendas. Is this a kind of black propaganda of speculators in instead of throwing leaflets are released demoralizing destructive gossip? Or are the rumors in this case a warning sound, a taste of a painful truth that governments in southern Europe do not want to hear? In classical mythology, the figure of Fame , illustrated with a trumpet, is ambivalent: it is sometimes good, sometimes bad. Sometimes announces the good reputation, in other scandal. The crisis

helena, this pseudo-confederal Europe of 27 Member States has not been a single leader to proclaim, like challenging Obama a ' We are in this together ' or 'We rise and fall as one '. A point 60 years met the Schuman Declaration , the European founding fathers, from Mount Rushmore who have not, seen just how the dream of a united Europe is tottering.

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