| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.143.98.239 |
And I blame the internet. And ebooks. And me. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 166.216.226.174 |
What means you this "immune"? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I have the BBC 24 Hour News Channel on all the time in the background and instantly prick up my ears when something changes in the loop. The News we have been watching this last 10 years has presented some of the most dramatic and life-changing experiences I've ever had. Not because News is "new" but because of exponential advances in reportage and technology. So I have to respectfully disagree with you, Des. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.143.98.239 |
We're more aware of news, Stevie. But we're less affected by it in our gut. Either completely unaffected, indeed, or mock-outraged? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
News is what people don't want you to hear. Anything else is just advertising. I wish I could remember whose quote that is. Craig's response to the OWS campaign is a classic example of immunity to the news, (although from all accounts teh American media is downplaying it so much you'd think nothing was happening, let alone possibly a world changing event so we can probably excuse him a bit). I have to say I agree with Des. You hear about an earthquake with thousands dead or another drought laying waste to the third world and you think 'oh that's a shame' or 'ah well, it wasn't as bad as the one in ***pick country where similar event happened*** x number of years ago'. It's more and more difficult to care sometimes about what's going on. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Meanwhile - whatever happened to innocent till proven guilty? A Coronation street star has been arrested so suddenly all the papers are full of the allegations against him. The girl's name is of course withheld, but his name now being dragged through the mud and probably won't recover regardless of the outcome of the trial - if it goes that far. In this sort of case the accused should have the same right to anonymity as the victim. Just watch the reporting if there is a trial. Every word that the victim gives will be reported as 100% fact while his answers will be prefaced with 'alleged' or 'he stated'. The british media makes me sick sometimes. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
We're more aware of news, Stevie. But we're less affected by it in our gut. Either completely unaffected, indeed, or mock-outraged? Speak for yersel | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.143.98.239 |
That's the impression I'm getting universally - Me? I keep my cards close to my chest. Self-deceptively.  | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.79.51.178 |
Compassion fatigue is an inevitable reaction to a VERY recent phenomenon: being told about awful things we can't influence. For all of human history (except the last blip) anything we knew about, we were intimately involved in. Is there a way of making global communications 2-way? A way of projecting our hands out there as well as our eyes and ears? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Craig's response to the OWS campaign is a classic example of immunity to the news.... No, sorry, it's me seeing a bunch of tools. Or what I suspect are tools. I will withhold a real assessment until later. But if these guys are authentic, and aren't being foisted upon us by one power-monolith or another, I'll be for them, or at least be rooting them on. I do like authenticity, I detest stupidity. Though they're not mutually exclusive, no.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
If anything, Des, we have become over-sensitised to News. To the point that the once judiciously impartial face of the Media - remember those old toneless BBC broadcasts - has morphed into an hysterical harangue like something off the fecking X-Facor, ffs. News has become just another brand of conveyor belt entertainment. And that's something none of us are immune to... try as we might to stay non-judgemental. Were they really innocent? Is he really guilty? Etc, etc, etc... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
check out Charlie Brooker's Newswipe series that he dd for too many reasons to cout to be cynical about what we see in the news. |