Wednesday, December 22, 2004
A Beautiful War
http://www.policyreview.org/dec04/kaplan.html
the above is an excellent opinion piece that should be read.........
my wife and i disagree on certain things in life like all couples, for whatever reason she fails to see how manipulative the media is sometimes in my estimation. she grows concerned for my reactions towards the television.
an israeli 'news' show last week went to a run down tel aviv neighborhood to show the drug addicts living within a vacant building. they filmed the people who included illegal immigrants, ex-professionals, etc, in rather eye catching ways asking them about their problems and their ambitions (if any) for the future.
sure enough as they are filming the police showed up to arrest everyone and put the twenty or so addicts onto a bus and take them to a debriefing area where the addicts are interviewed/ interrogated/ counseled.........but amazingly enough after the hours sessions were finished, the police then put the addicts on various buses and dispersed them to various unsavory locales throughout the country, and the addicts one by one exited various modes of transport to be disengaged..........and stand there - where ever there is for an addict - isolated in the middle of podunk universe wondering what the heck to do next.
of course they were being filmed the whole time and made to look miserable which i am sure was a sincere feeling within the addicts.
my problem with this (besides almost losing my mind with anger) is just how manipulated the addicts on this show were by the 'news' show. it was a created event and left the addicts worse off because they had no relation to where they were let off to rot ......my wife on the other hand saw it as a way of showing the problems of the addicts and how they need to be resolved and couldnt understand why i thought this was cheap trick tv at its worse...........the news has become a reality show hooked and fused on making us feel something for the sake of entertainment......
my point just in case it isnt clear, is that our media and culture demand feel good events, something must be attained even if it is artificial..........something good must always be gotten.
it goes hand in hand with the way the war in iraq is being reported and distributed around the world.
the u.s. forces do the fighting but they are weighed down by the obstacles constructed by politically correct do-gooders who refuse to allow for the justification of blood and brutality as a tactic to kill enemy combatants.
of course, the same enemy combatant is justified to kill the u.s. troops in any manner possible, this because the insurgents are the underdog.........and underdogs are always a good story.
the above is an excellent opinion piece that should be read.........
my wife and i disagree on certain things in life like all couples, for whatever reason she fails to see how manipulative the media is sometimes in my estimation. she grows concerned for my reactions towards the television.
an israeli 'news' show last week went to a run down tel aviv neighborhood to show the drug addicts living within a vacant building. they filmed the people who included illegal immigrants, ex-professionals, etc, in rather eye catching ways asking them about their problems and their ambitions (if any) for the future.
sure enough as they are filming the police showed up to arrest everyone and put the twenty or so addicts onto a bus and take them to a debriefing area where the addicts are interviewed/ interrogated/ counseled.........but amazingly enough after the hours sessions were finished, the police then put the addicts on various buses and dispersed them to various unsavory locales throughout the country, and the addicts one by one exited various modes of transport to be disengaged..........and stand there - where ever there is for an addict - isolated in the middle of podunk universe wondering what the heck to do next.
of course they were being filmed the whole time and made to look miserable which i am sure was a sincere feeling within the addicts.
my problem with this (besides almost losing my mind with anger) is just how manipulated the addicts on this show were by the 'news' show. it was a created event and left the addicts worse off because they had no relation to where they were let off to rot ......my wife on the other hand saw it as a way of showing the problems of the addicts and how they need to be resolved and couldnt understand why i thought this was cheap trick tv at its worse...........the news has become a reality show hooked and fused on making us feel something for the sake of entertainment......
my point just in case it isnt clear, is that our media and culture demand feel good events, something must be attained even if it is artificial..........something good must always be gotten.
it goes hand in hand with the way the war in iraq is being reported and distributed around the world.
the u.s. forces do the fighting but they are weighed down by the obstacles constructed by politically correct do-gooders who refuse to allow for the justification of blood and brutality as a tactic to kill enemy combatants.
of course, the same enemy combatant is justified to kill the u.s. troops in any manner possible, this because the insurgents are the underdog.........and underdogs are always a good story.
// posted by Zevchi @ 9:47 PM 
