Rally To Restoe Sanity and/or Fear

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neilr said:

CommanderJameson said:

neilr said:

Blib said:

I yearn to a return to those days of "right sizing" the importance of the news.

Couldn't agree more. The 'dumbing down' of the news is so utterely objectionable it's painfull. Premiership footballers transfer whims are NOT worthy front page or first, second, or even third items on national news. The public has come to accept it and even demand that they are, while they are in some x-factor induced coma. It's all pretty Orwellian.

Not Orwellian.

It's Huxleyian.

The "news" media is our soma.

Maybe, but Orwell did say that the way for governments to run wild was to dumb down the news, give the populus mind softening entertainment etc, in a way that would make them not care about what the government was doing behind their backs. Todays utterly dumbed down news (when it actually reports real news) and crap like 'im a celebrity dancer on the moon get me out of the ballroom factor' seems to fit the bill pretty well.

The term he used was Prolefeed. In nineteen eighty-four such stuff was actually churned out by machines called versificators to keep the proles happy.

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Late follow up, but here's Bill Maher's critique