Infotainment has destroyed political discourse and this clip is itself a symptom. It's perfect fluff television - short cuts, joking around, argumentation, dramatic visuals of pages ripping, the lighter, the shredder - and they still talked about Paris Hilton and played the pointless, context-free clip.
Just when viewers might have started thinking about the way television fragments attention and trivialises everything it touches, a context switch to something completely unrelated.
Aldous Huxley was right and Neil Postman was right.
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I agree with the sentiment but I call bullshit.
ReplyDeleteInfotainment has destroyed political discourse and this clip is itself a symptom. It's perfect fluff television - short cuts, joking around, argumentation, dramatic visuals of pages ripping, the lighter, the shredder - and they still talked about Paris Hilton and played the pointless, context-free clip.
Just when viewers might have started thinking about the way television fragments attention and trivialises everything it touches, a context switch to something completely unrelated.
Aldous Huxley was right and Neil Postman was right.