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very short version of what i think might be a longer response when i am less pixellated brain-wise: if tv is in the process ofrendering itself so utterly trivial, how do you explain its role in generating support for the farce that is the war in iraq? what i was saying is that i suspect folk have hierarchies (implicit perhaps) that they use in sorting through the sea of niche-marketed crap that is tv, and news--particularly news during moments of crisis--seems to be quite important as a source of infotainment relative to which other sources are weighed.
i am not so optimistic about interactivity, nor about the web, in freeing folk from the miasma of american tv infotainment--patterns of presenting information have not yet developed that make the web into an autonomous info source--it looks and read for the most part like cheap imitation of text with added problems brought about by the relative immobility of most computers (in relation to newspapers or books) which tends to push toward types of reading practices that make webinformation more ephemeral than printed.
obviously, there are dispositional and educational strata in the good ole us of a and not everyone uses these sources in the same way, but nonetheless....
back to pixel=land for now.
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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