I came across this on ceasespin.org. It's impossible to disagree with the post or the first video involving JKF. The second one should induce vomiting indeed. What utter bull shit spewed by those two. It's like watching a Jamaican (and not to discriminate any persons from a hot region) explain to a Canadian how to shovel snow.
My favorite is watching actors pretend to be foreign policy experts. That's to laugh.
As many of you know, this blog often tackles the problem of debating the trivial.
Television deliberately skews reality. Sadly, the media has jumped on this game all too readily. It's not about intellectualism but marketing and ratings. We could expand all the nonsense to all sorts of programming from talk shows to reality shows.
But before we jump and say things were better yesterday. Best to remember that for centuries alchemists, magnetisers and other assorted scammers roamed the earth. It wasn't better back then. Posers and people of no merit always managed to grab the spotlight. It's up to us to cut through the cynical ploys of media and reject them.
Med They had a choice: do the right thing or go the route of bull shitting.
They made their choice.
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ReplyDeleteIn my view the problem is 100% liberalism in media economy ;-)
ReplyDeleteAllow in fact one question (provocative, in case it kicks off something): isn't establishing that a business (Press) must be protected by the mere laws of economy –more audience in news, more money - for the sake of rightly informing the public sorta recognizing that State must (also) have an educational role in a society? How can we stop the trivial to be emphasised or the base taste of the masses? By spreading moral awareness? Press companies (not to mention Tv shows and movies) will continue to give to people what they want, not at all reflection and good information. It is as if teachers’ classes were controlled by students in some way.
I remember America criticizing European States like France or Italy because of their state television or because state aided (so to say) artistic and intelligent movies and valuable movie authors. The fact that most of the time this money was badly spent doesn’t much disturb the principle. The goal was worthwhile, only the ways to reach proved ineffective.
What you propose here is something I've wrestled with myself. It's worth discussing. Though I didn't quite see the student/teacher angle, I would guess you're right that TV gives what people want.
ReplyDeleteHowever, what's the "limit?" Do I really want some person from a TV show (in this case in the video linked from The Apprentice) offering political views? What qualifies her? And examining the discussion, not much.
I recognize that blasting such things can come off as "snobbery" but my argument is at the very least don't insult people gratuitously. Then again, we may be in the minority.
Sorry for the delay. Sure. Thanks.
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