the net is great for getting news from the wire services. they're the real sources anyway, what you see on tv is merely packaged in bad hairspray, overproduced music and sensationalist graphics. funny how the sites that were most swamped were the tv channel sites - cnn, msnbc, fox - the budweisers of news. guess it's time to crack one open, 75% of americans prefer it to either coke or milk.
i watched it unfold live on tv from the west coast. fear paralyzed me in front of the set at first - was it over? was the prez alive or dead? how could this happen, don't we defend our own airspace?
then i realized that's just what they wanted - for americans to live in fear. we live in a media junkie culture - sadly more focused on celebrity obsession than international politics (until now, anyway). so the terrorists 'hollywoodized' their message, and sent it directly to each one of us on tuesday.
watch or don't watch, but don't let them win that way. i watched so that i could know my enemy, and what i would have to be prepared to defend myself against.
i couldn't turn it off on tuesday, thinking the bad news could get even worse at any time. crossed my mind that i may soon regret the decision to just sit there instead of fleeing. but to where, and from what?
now i can't turn it off since i wonder which media outlet will blink first, and return to normal (?) programming. don't want to miss that moment, not only to see how they do the transition, but also to try and grasp just what normal programming will mean after the coverage shifts from non-stop to ongoing.
is it even possible to become desensitized to images like the ones we've seen throughout the week through relentless repetition of them? alternatively, has our lust for violence on tv been sated forever? and will we see a more permanent return to real reporting?
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the net is great for getting news from the wire services. they're the real sources anyway, what you see on tv is merely packaged in bad hairspray, overproduced music and sensationalist graphics. funny how the sites that were most swamped were the tv channel sites - cnn, msnbc, fox - the budweisers of news. guess it's time to crack one open, 75% of americans prefer it to either coke or milk.
- medea frenzi
i watched it unfold live on tv from the west coast. fear paralyzed me in front of the set at first - was it over? was the prez alive or dead? how could this happen, don't we defend our own airspace?
then i realized that's just what they wanted - for americans to live in fear. we live in a media junkie culture - sadly more focused on celebrity obsession than international politics (until now, anyway). so the terrorists 'hollywoodized' their message, and sent it directly to each one of us on tuesday.
watch or don't watch, but don't let them win that way. i watched so that i could know my enemy, and what i would have to be prepared to defend myself against.
i couldn't turn it off on tuesday, thinking the bad news could get even worse at any time. crossed my mind that i may soon regret the decision to just sit there instead of fleeing. but to where, and from what?
now i can't turn it off since i wonder which media outlet will blink first, and return to normal (?) programming. don't want to miss that moment, not only to see how they do the transition, but also to try and grasp just what normal programming will mean after the coverage shifts from non-stop to ongoing.
is it even possible to become desensitized to images like the ones we've seen throughout the week through relentless repetition of them? alternatively, has our lust for violence on tv been sated forever? and will we see a more permanent return to real reporting?
- medea frenzi