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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
yeah for the most part it's utter shit, but it's "what the public wants"-- news of rapes, murders, and carjacking, fires and catastrophes big and small, but nothing of what can help you make up your mind about your actions in the world.
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Media criticism is one of my schools favorite subjects next to gender studies. Often they're all satisfied with condemning the big brother media that are trying to keep them dumb but then they leave class and turn on Gossip Girl.
There seems to be a lot of doublethink (sorry for 1984 allusion) when it comes to collective intelligence. Democracy is a beautiful idea but we hate it when we see it in our lowest common denominator media and then blame it on the media moguls. When you appeal to the idea of bettering the intelligence of the media, you then get liberty freaks saying they don't want to be brainwashed by the whatever agenda. Rob hates fascists but hates free media.