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Most news doesn't actually inform us in any meaningful way though. Here in the U.K. the last three weeks have been endless repetition of media managed slogans
by kristianc 10y ago
Most news doesn't actually inform us in any meaningful way though.
Here in the U.K. the last three weeks have been endless repetition of media managed slogans and photo opportunities.
There are very real injustices happening in the world - in Syria and in Chechnya for instance - but they're routinely ignored unless you really go looking for them.
- unityByFreedom 9y ago> There are very real injustices happening in the world - in Syria and in Chechnya for instance - but they're routinely ignored unless you really go looking for them. How can you say they're ignored while admitting that you can find reporting on them if you look? I find it ironic that people complain about the quality of mass media while simultaneously swallowing mass media's definition of what is and isn't important. If you hate mass media, then you are a person who doesn't need to be spoon-fed news, right? Of course this notion flies in the face of our dear leader, who hates CNN but watches it religiously. He seems to have convinced every far right person to do the same.
- dazc 9y agoResonates with me, living in Spain and listening to BBC news for the past 12 months wondering if anything actually happens in the UK aside from a handful of headline events? Seems like anything that does get reported is merely an opportunity to spin the narrative towards their ideological agenda?