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objectivity is an illusion.
people look for it so they can go to sleep while processing "information"
you think that because there is a camera involved that what is shown is necessarily accurate, it seems.
that is really pretty naieve.
the only problem with knowing this is that you cant really trust any single source of information--you have to gather, coalate, sift, interpret--all actively.
fox is problematic at the level of information, how it is staged, how it is interpreted. fox is even more obviously problematic in its editorial slant, but at least there you know what you are in for and have a remote presumably.
in a perverse way, its obviousness is something to be admired, since it apporaches a honesty within more general stream of falsehoods (fair and balanced, say)
fox is obviously dimissable source if you are looking for information not already packaged in terms of conservative presuppositions.
and would you not think that there should be something to information beyond the reinforcement of arbitrary political predispositions? something--maybe--that makes you think a little rather than something that functions to reionforce a sense of mastery of the world based on assumptions that you know--evne if you do not agree--can be understood as removed from the reality that other folk know about?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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