Quote Originally Posted by War Angel
HE'S ONE OF US!!! (though I wish he wasn't...)
He is one of us too!

Who of yous is he from?

As for what The Captain said, yes, I agree with him. I would like to add that such accelerated way of exposing the news is done in a way the viewer cannot construct doubt about the situation exposed. The edition is made in a way it creates a dramatic impact of visual intensity, even when the deep understanding of the news is blurred. The interviews are cut on vocal pauses but edited in a way there is not a feeling anything has been removed, and in the end, such way of communicating is an afirmation of the importance of image above the substance.

However, I do not thing tghe alternative, meaning radio or newspapers, is really a way of bneing informed. The media is at the service of the modern order, and as such it has a mission to expose arguments to mantain it, and give more importance to some issues than others. Thats why I recommended Noam Chosmky, who has very critical articles against The New York Time (yes....I think it's meant to be liberal media) where he exposes a study on how the news related to Cambodia did recive much more covering (much, much more) to the one happening in East Timor at the same time, that was practically ignored. This not only happens in such case: media makes a great covering on US in Iraq. And since I am very critical, being critical with the left winged media, I will say something: you can try to show how screwed up the US is, and you have plenty of evidence for it, a lot of contradictions. You can do the same with Israel. However, being serious, why do countries like France or China oftenly escape such criticism? What about Europe really? It's like US is so evil and the EU is wonderful? Hell no, the European Union is about to pass a constitution (if you can call it as such) that will bring Europe into progressive privatization, favour the corporations and violate the democratic rights. Oh, yeah, wait, they are against Bush. Big deal, they are against him because they are the same . I would recommend any european to check the articles 40-43 of the constitution and applaud such a pathetic show. But of course, Bush is so stupid and ugly, and Bin Laden is so evil and has such an evil beard, we can forget about the rest of the bastards doing whatever they want.