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| Monday, August 18th, 2008 | 10:24 am
[ossetianwar]
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Mass media talks a lot about war beetwen Georgia and Osetia. But is it truth? Look at the war by the eyes of citizen of Tzhinval, the capital of South Osetia, and make your own point of view. http://ossetianwar.livejournal.com/ | | Monday, April 28th, 2008 | 9:02 pm
[dreamsoft]
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Radiohead Nude "Lucid Dream" remix
For all out there who are not aware, Radiohead is allowing folks to do remixes of their song "nude" (see radioheadremix.com). I'm both hoping folks will enjoy my version of the track (a very dreamy, spooky track that builds to an explosive end), which you can listen to here: http://www.radioheadremix.com/remix/?id=2073or here, if the html works: (I uploaded it with only a week to go, so I'm a latecomer - voting ends MAY 1st!!! - and am hoping you'll vote and share with your friends so they might vote!) AND I'm also hoping to listen to remixes of other folks. So if you have one, message me with where I can listen to it. Specifically I'm curious what other Portland/Oregon/Washington folks have made, but ultimately I'd like to hear from everyone wherever they might live. Most of all, I hope everyone just keeps music alive (both in listening and in creation) as a language, as a means of communicationg, as something beautiful for the soul. Nevyn Nowhere http://www.happyhumans.orgSad Music for Happy Humans | | Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 | 7:52 pm
[paranoiddork]
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So one thing that concerns me about the mass media is the line between presenting useful information to the "mass" public and giving stories that don't belong on the news but that provide a shock factor that, in turn, delivers traffic and perhaps profits to the news providers. For example, the current headline on cnn.com is "Seven from one family die in horrific crash, officer says." Tragic and gripping, yes, but should it really be major national news, especially in light of some of the major things going on right now? What are your takes on the media obsession with stories like this that, in my opinion, should be limited in presentation to the families involved and not the entire nation? | | Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 | 11:26 pm
[girlziplocked]
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Here we go American Media Double Standard! Exhibit A: Spoiled Idiot Missing in Aruba  Headline news for WEEKS. Exhibit B: Female Journalist Held Hostage by Terrorists Under the radar for a WEEK and will probably fade after they kill her. Ok. I'm frankly disgusted by American attention spans and who should be fretted about and who shouldn't be in the media. | | Friday, January 13th, 2006 | 5:34 pm
[pedrofeo]
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| | Monday, September 26th, 2005 | 9:00 pm
[ex_aimaletdi15]
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Dear friends! Have you ever heard about any alternatives to Internet? About any new projects of networks, that can be used as original telecommunication and information resource (as Internet is used)? Particularly, it is very interesting to know about any European projects. Thank you! | | Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 | 5:41 pm
[poorwhiteboy]
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Wanna See him gone?
http://bloodyhearts.com/Take the image from this site and plaster it on every telephone/light pole in your city. We did it last weekend, most of them were gone in a few days, but we are going to put up 1000 this weekend instead of 600. Have them wake up the next day to see how many people don't want him around! | | Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 | 10:15 pm
[fire_trucks]
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I just read another frothing-at-the-mouth article from a "sky is falling" left-wing commentator who is scared out of his pants about Bush's judicial appointees: The crisis of democracy in America Now I'm going to bypass all that "run for your lives" rhetoric and I'm going to get to the part that I'm really interested in: The media is the biggest battleground. From the point of view of most progressives, right-wing voices - and often very harsh ones - dominate the airwaves, newspaper and magazine columns, and the web. This is not the place to go into the lopsided tally of right-wing pundits and talk-show hosts vs a few isolated liberals; the imbalance has been well-documented elsewhere.
From the right’s point of view, though, the media still has a liberal bias, which the right chooses to address by pursuing the rare bastions of independent journalism and opinion.
In the centrist media, Dan Rather has been a favourite target ever since he sharply questioned George Bush senior (then vice-president) during the 1988 presidential campaign. His mistakes in reporting on George W Bush’s National Guard record during the 2004 campaign were amplified and exaggerated by a relentless series of attacks on right-wing radio and television and in magazines like The Weekly Standard and The National Review, until he resigned. (The right-wing “blogosphere” also claimed CNN’s Eason Jordan after repeatedly distorting his remarks about US soldiers killing journalists in Iraq). With the retirements of Tom Brokaw and Ted Koppel, and the illness of Peter Jennings, the remaining generation of network anchors who cut their teeth as working journalists is effectively gone. With respect to Gara LaMarche, I don't think he knows what he's talking about -- and attacking the blogosphere isn't going to do him very good. As long as the media is concentrated in the hands of the few, there will always be bias. As long as there are regulations on media -- no matter how impartial these regulations are -- there will be bias. The problem isn't that the FCC is biased; the problem is that there is an FCC at all. While liberals are trying to gain balance in the media through use of bureaucracy, this won't make the media balanced. The solution of free expression is reform. Why should I have to pay a licence to start my own television network? Why should only the very filthy rich decide which content to produce? Why should such organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA decide which media by which I can view their content? Funny enough, it is in the most socialistic of countries that old style intellectual property laws are strongest in effect. In Sweden -- left-wing bastion that it is -- it is against the law to download copywritten content. Even if you already own said content. In my native Canada, we haven't had satellite radio for two years due to my country's draconian "Canadian content" rules. Do you call this balance? You have a problem with balance in the media, eh? How about becoming an advocate for Free culture? Oh yes, you get offended by the Rush Limbaughs of the radio and the Ann Coulters. How about starting your own radio show -- and make your media free to share for all to listen. Nothing is stopping you. Here on LiveJournal, we have literally millions of people who broadcast their opinions -- live and ready to consume. There is Wikipedia, Opentunes, and Ourmedia. Lots of places and means to communicate your message. The only reason why there is is a battle over media is because every political ideology wants to shout down the other political ideology. And to do that, there has to be control over how we receive our media. I'm sorry, buddy. I think you are a whiny little crybaby who, yet again, seeks to gain control over media by arguing about "balance". You want balance? Let everyone (and by everyone I mean not just yourselves) express themselves however they see fit. That means deregulation. That means getting rid of red tape. That means -- GASP! -- less government. | | Friday, June 10th, 2005 | 8:13 pm
[djlab] |
| | Wednesday, June 1st, 2005 | 9:07 pm
[girlziplocked]
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( Downing Street Memo ) Why this matters... List of Dem Reps who have signed a letter demanding Bush account for this memo The LetterThe problem with the media's take on this issue is that the entire framework of the story was to make it look like Blair and Blair alone was taking the fall for this and it had nothing to do with the US government. After reading the articles pertaining to the story, I didn't really think much of it, either, to be perfectly honest. But now that the memo itself has been published, it's pretty clear how deeply we were involved in this. It's fascinating, actually, how this was so deeply buried this story was in "WORLD" or "INTERNATIONAL" stories (you know, the stories that rarely, if ever, make headlines in America or are rarely, if ever, read by Americans). I mean, honestly, I really just skim international stories (given, well, you guys know, how much American news I read). I completely missed this | | Sunday, May 29th, 2005 | 6:05 pm
[djlab] |
CNN said "teh"
"French voters have rejected adopting the EU Constitution, according the exit polls. Should the exit polls be confirmed, the result would be a blow to the government of President Jacques Chirac, who led teh 'yes' camp. The charter lays out the future path of the 25-member organization on key issues including common foreign policy."Haha! Yeah CNN, join "teh" l337 kids! =P | | Friday, May 27th, 2005 | 11:22 pm
[djlab] |
| | Sunday, April 24th, 2005 | 3:27 pm
[ihaveadream]
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I am writing an essay on representations of crime, punishment, criminals and law enforcement officers in television crime drama, specifically in the 90s drama Cracker. I would welcome any comments from you on this, im particular I am basing my analysis around an article by Melossi, in which he argues: “Representations of crime and criminality are not random and unpredictable results of creative endeavours (though they are also this). Rather they are conceptualizations deeply embedded within the main patterns of social relationships in a given society in a given period” (Melossi: 2000) What i am doing is looking at Cracker in relation to this view and to see if it does reflect concerns in society. Any views would be welcome! X-Posted in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.1) culture_studiesmedia_studiesmassmediasociologists | | Friday, January 28th, 2005 | 1:06 pm
[perspectum]
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| | Monday, January 10th, 2005 | 4:21 pm
[hdofu]
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| | Tuesday, August 10th, 2004 | 3:42 pm
[agorist]
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The Alien Grip on Our
News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken
Who Rules America?
By the Research Staff of National Vanguard Magazine
PO Box 330, Hillsboro, West Virginia 24946 USA. FAX# 304-653-4690
There is no greater power in the world today than that wielded by the manipulators of public opinion in America. No king or pope of old, no conquering general or high priest ever disposed of a power even remotely approaching that of the few dozen men who control America's mass media of news and entertainment.
Their power is not distant and impersonal; it reaches into every home in America, and it works its will during nearly every waking hour. It is the power that shapes and molds the mind of virtually every citizen, young or old, rich or poor, simple or sophisticated.
The mass media form for us our image of the world and then tell us what to think about that image. Essentially everything we know -- or think we know -- about events outside our own neighborhood or circle of acquaintances comes to us via our daily newspaper, our weekly news magazine, our radio, or our television.
It is not just the heavy-handed suppression of certain news stories from our newspapers or the blatant propagandizing of history-distorting TV "docudramas" that characterizes the opinion-manipulating techniques of the media masters. They exercise both subtlety and thoroughness in their management of the news and the entertainment that they present to us.
For example, the way in which the news is covered: which items are emphasized and which are played down; the reporter's choice of words, tone of voice, and facial expressions; the wording of headlines; the choice of illustrations -- all of these things subliminally and yet profoundly affect the way in which we interpret what we see or hear.
On top of this, of course, the columnists and editors remove any remaining doubt from our minds as to just what we are to think about it all. Employing carefully developed psychological techniques, they guide our thought and opinion so that we can be in tune with the "in" crowd, the "beautiful people," the "smart money." They let us know exactly what our attitudes should be toward various types of people and behavior by placing those people or that behavior in the context of a TV drama or situation comedy and having the other TV characters react in the Politically Correct way.
( you must read on ) | | Friday, July 16th, 2004 | 8:30 pm
[masher_dan] |
| | Sunday, May 2nd, 2004 | 3:23 am
[perspectum]
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| | Thursday, April 15th, 2004 | 1:26 am
[perspectum]
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Couple quotes on advertising I felt like sharing at this moment.
“The truth isn’t the truth until people believe you.” – Bill Bernbach“ Good advertising” does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.” – Leo Burnett</i>
“To explain responsibility to advertising people is like trying to convince an eight year old that sexual intercourse is more fun than chocolate ice cream.” – Howard Gossage
"You're buying an idea, a feeling, an image, an instant connection to where it's happening, to sense of excitement, to the idea that you're part of an engine that drives the shiny, glamorous world. It becomes a solution to isolation, loneliness, or impotence. It's not about the actual product we buy. That's almost the least of it. It's about achieving pleasure, happiness, resolution, the end of some anxiety. It's about buying into a world that advertising presents, where corporations are basically good guys who care about us as individuals. Through advertising they are saying, we can connect you to a glamorous powerful world." - Leslie Savan
"Consciously or not, we compare ourselves to the ads we see, accepting the discomfort they have created - because without discomfort there would be no need for salvation - then buying deliverance in the guise of their product." - James Robinson | | Sunday, March 21st, 2004 | 7:40 pm
[perspectum]
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where the hell did my consumer rights and privacy go!?
“Ads that stalk us.” – article recently in now magazine. Highlights:To some, the realization of marketing’s newer faces is nothing new. For example, a couple new strategies thought up to help move product are by means of – - RFID – radio frequency id tags. Offline signals that are sent to high up offices in the skies, which can track items past point of purchase, follow you into your household, take your picture, take in stock inventory. There is just no place to hide!! Removal of the device at point of sale (checkout) stops them someone, but its just not good enough. Companies are pushing for this, and in some places it’s already on its way to becoming commonplace. And don’t forget, id implanted biochips in pets, its reality. Does that mean implant information chips in humans isn’t all that far off? -Mobiltrak’s car radio scanning of station preferences via billboards which then change to suit its target. (But to this I ask, if what station your listening to can make an electronic billboard change, what about all the other drivers with their radios on driving down the same road!??) - Computers. Built into everyday household items. And now... your fridge, no surprise really its been a long time coming, cuz you know, using your laptop in the kitchen or walking down the hall to your desk where your desktop is, is just too much effort. Ppfft :P i'm sure the bathroom is up nxt. - Mass cell phone text messaging. Ads thrown at you on your mobile. Great. As if the radiation wasn’t enough. Satellite signals help to zoom in on prey. Walk by a gap, and your phone may tell you they are having a big ‘ol jolly sale. Aren;t ring tones bad enough to bare!? And the newest, since marketing is always one step ahead of any privacy infringements that can be thrown at them. We have, Woody Norris of American Technology to thank for and I quote: ”a processor that projects sound in a focused beam, much like laser-focused light. It's liberating to imagine listening to music beamed right at your head without your roommate hearing, but imagine receiving a marketing message directed in the same way without being able to tell where it's coming from.
Companies such as McDonald's and Wal-Mart have been experimenting with ways to direct this sound laser at target customers. Essentially, it would follow consumers around and plant auditory messages in their heads. “These highly invasive projects need to be nipped in the but before they even think of them. Impossible yes. But perhaps if tighter restraints on privacy and consumer violations were enforced, laws wouldn’t have to be made after the fact of its launch and after the fact it’s already begun what it set out to do. (x-posted to antiadvertising and antivists |
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