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Friday, December 2. 2011

Say cheese! Palliwood Journalism

I know it's been said by many people many times, but I'll say it again: Sometimes, cameras do not record things - they create them.  Reader reminded me of the Palliwood video below, which reminded me of OWS: would those people have been there without the nightly TV cameras, and all the attention from all the people walking by taking their pictures?  I doubt it.


Thus the thousands of mostly cheerful people who swarmed into Macy's on Thanksgiving weekend to enjoy giving up their hard-earned money to evil corporations were not a meaningful meme, but thirty scruffy malcontents still at Zuccotti Park got their daily TV notoriety, maintaining the deeply meaning meme. The former activity does not require the presence of cameras, the latter does and therefore is Palliwood.


Greedy for visual content, those with the cameras create the news. Then they create the narrative to go along with it. Yes, we all know this already.


 


Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 18:01 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Thanks for posting that BD. I am losing all faith in the media's objectivity. This exposes blatant propaganda but will not bother the left at all. I know there has always been a level of this going on but this seems an unprecedented level at this time.
#1 BrianInWisconsin on 2011-12-02 19:53 (Reply)
A picture is worth a thousand lies.
#2 chuck on 2011-12-02 21:37 (Reply)
In my neighborhood in Jerusalem when I lived there, the kids knew when and how to get the news on board. They made cell phone calls to announce "demonstrations."
#3 nathan on 2011-12-02 22:58 (Reply)
The America into which I was born, the America designed by the Founding Fathers, has been stolen--perhaps irretrievably.
#4 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-12-04 00:13 (Reply)

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