I wonder just how manipulated I am. For instance, I find Heather Mills's face quite offensive, but I'm sure this response has been carefully engineered by the media, in the photographs chosen and so on. But why are they doing this? Or is this a silly question?
I've heard people say how brilliant Brasseye was at deconstructing supposedly objective television, such as news and current affairs programmes, and I would agree.
I'm pondering this partly because I'm reading Grotesque by Kirino Natsuo, which I hope to review once I've finished.
No worse fate can befall a man, says Burroughs, than to be surrounded by traitor souls. Indeed. Which soul do you trust?
I remember a conversation about Brasseye and the way the media creates images. He had watched, my interlocutor told me, a current affairs programme in which David Blunkett was being interviewed. And, at the conclusion of the interview, there was a moment where the camera focused on David Blunkett's hands. Why?
The media has been brain washing people since it’s inception. The first reported use of a printing press for use other than to print bibles was to print propaganda. Politics created media but media now has it’s own soul and it supports whichever politics of the day is best suited to empowering said media.
That video is outrageously funny!Great satire – in right time and place.
“Politics created media but media now has it’s own soul and it supports whichever politics of the day is best suited to empowering said media.”Yes, this seems to be where things get complicated. It seems like there are just lots of people trying to put forward competing propaganda, and perhaps – probably – none of it is true, or if it is ‘factual’, none of it is presented without manipulation.”That video is outrageously funny!Great satire – in right time and place.”As the link says, Chris Morris, who made that show, has had a lot of flak from the media. He hasn’t, it seems, been given television work for a long time. This makes interesting reading, I think:http://www.garbledonline.net/brasseyespecial.htmlIt's about this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jVnrfoZD8