the shooting gallery
(photo suzy bernstein)
in a way, your show has made me more conscious of this perpetual
mediation…
on the news just now, the talking head says “and still dominating headlines
across the world - the tsunami and etc etc”…the story is about the
size of the story…not a fuck about any people or experiences or tragedies
or truth or whatever, but purely in terms of narratology…the impactability
and the “level of interest” which might be shown in it…
and then straight afterwards the presenter (in a more kindly tone)
has us know that “nelson mandela spent his birthday away from the
lime-light of the media eye”…as the camera helpfully pans up to
show the man being “away from the media eye w/ his family”…
jesus, it’s lunacy…it’s funny, it’s frightening…
July 28th, 2006 at 11:22 am
http://chartreuse.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/people-have-no-idea-how-out-of-control-things-are-down-here/
the flip side of the coin…
July 28th, 2006 at 11:24 am
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2924