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Media's Role: Sparking Difficult Conversations
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Media's Role: Sparking Difficult Conversations

Even on the taboo subject of 'a good death'

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Mainstream media, including the now-defunded PBS and NPR, are under assault. To combat this trend and humanize “the media,” communications professionals are posting pictures of themselves on social media to illustrate the important work we do.

Here’s mine. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was part of a team that for several years broached a national…

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