http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
I suggest looking at Baghdad's Burning's current April 3 entry.
Her accounting and take on USA's TV shows taking over the airwaves in
Baghdad is - it seems to me - one of the most accurate contemporary examples
that I have read of this country's attempt to impose "its" language, point
of view, etc. on to Iraq. A "media imperialism," or so it appears.
Outrageous and disgusting and stupid - - her piece is very good in getting
all that framed. (Her righteousness is almost humorous in that - if we turn
on the TV - her accounting of media intrusion and manipulation is often a
violation we also live with everyday.) In Iraq - given these conditions -
the divorce between media and reality - it hardly takes a radical
fundamentalist to want to blow out the TV screens - to cut off the head, so
to speak, of these weird, 'self' serving media messengers.
How poetry, theater and other 'reality' based media have a chance - or
workable strategy - against this control by State and Corporate owned
communication systems is a real question. I suspect the real motivation of
the Patriot Act is to seal this System into place.
What bets can be placed on the Internet (here or anywhere) as an alternative
media structure and outlet? Or other modes of gathering and challenging the
dictates of the "Master Media".
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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