Very interesting, indeed, Stephen.
I think her idea for a 'reality show' is superb. It might be one I
would watch.
Doug
On 5-Apr-05, at 12:06 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> 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
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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the silver light came pouring.
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