Never having paid attention to politics, I'm constantly surprised by the ridiculous back door dealings and underhanded stuff that goes on. I recently watched the British 'Yes Minister' and the...
Never having paid attention to politics, I'm constantly surprised by the ridiculous back door dealings and underhanded stuff that goes on. I recently watched the British 'Yes Minister' and the America 'Veep'. I always took the plot with large pinch of salt, accounting for comedy -- but I'm becoming far more cynical.
Reading through this article I can't help but imagining this as an episode, each character manipulating the other for personal gain with a hilarious punchline, if only it wasn't all so real.
No doubt down the line we'll have some witty comedy tv to enjoy. And I don't mean the overly political frankly boring personal attacks that are produced now. Trump is just a comedic punching bag, with the same jokes repeated ad nauseum. No I'd really like a smartly written comedy that shows the absurdity of the system for what it is. /Sorry for hijacking this with a kind of off topic discussion, but there is it.
More than that, the daily scandals and tweets serve to shift the media's gaze and distract the public. The dwell on salacious tedium instead of having enough to time to talk about how his...
Trump is just a comedic punching bag
More than that, the daily scandals and tweets serve to shift the media's gaze and distract the public. The dwell on salacious tedium instead of having enough to time to talk about how his massively corrupt cabinet and appointees while they are dismantling the regulatory apparatus at home and undermining our position abroad.
Critics get to feel good decrying his misdeeds and sheer buffoonery - and its even a little fun and carthartic to boot! Everyone wins right? He's gonna be gone soon! Right? WRONG! His policy legacy will take years to overcome and the political norms we've lost may never come back. But we can't talk more about that because we have to get pissed about a tweet or some scandalous Id-Pol news fodder.
What we lack is any sort of ability to zoom out. Maybe a show as you discuss is a way past that. Narratives are a great way to get "into" a complex world view.
I take major issue with the subtitle of this article. This indicative of the broad tendency towards Fox News and Alt-Right exceptionalism in liberal coverage of the reactionary/neo-fascist...
I take major issue with the subtitle of this article.
Fox has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
This indicative of the broad tendency towards Fox News and Alt-Right exceptionalism in liberal coverage of the reactionary/neo-fascist movement in America. Time and again, the rise of overt white nationalism is seen as something new and surprising even though its lineage is traceable to the pre-American Revolution slave patrols.
Moreover, the simple asking of this question implies that Americans have not been subjected to jingoistic propaganda through the corporate/state media apparatus for a century. Consider the Creel Commission which stirred the isolationist Pre-WWI American people to war in the mid and late 1910s. Wasn't the media storm in the lead up to the Iraq and Afghan Wars utter propaganda?
Sure, Fox News is overt partisan propaganda. But so are MSNBC, CNN, and Meet the Press. Any program which is overtly deferential to people in positions of authority and "the official story," whose coverage serves to advance the policy positions of the corporate/state revolving door is propaganda. The New Yorker is just incapable of realizing this fact or critiquing it because it is part of the Neo-Liberal propaganda machine that has existed for a century.
Never having paid attention to politics, I'm constantly surprised by the ridiculous back door dealings and underhanded stuff that goes on. I recently watched the British 'Yes Minister' and the America 'Veep'. I always took the plot with large pinch of salt, accounting for comedy -- but I'm becoming far more cynical.
Reading through this article I can't help but imagining this as an episode, each character manipulating the other for personal gain with a hilarious punchline, if only it wasn't all so real.
No doubt down the line we'll have some witty comedy tv to enjoy. And I don't mean the overly political frankly boring personal attacks that are produced now. Trump is just a comedic punching bag, with the same jokes repeated ad nauseum. No I'd really like a smartly written comedy that shows the absurdity of the system for what it is. /Sorry for hijacking this with a kind of off topic discussion, but there is it.
More than that, the daily scandals and tweets serve to shift the media's gaze and distract the public. The dwell on salacious tedium instead of having enough to time to talk about how his massively corrupt cabinet and appointees while they are dismantling the regulatory apparatus at home and undermining our position abroad.
Critics get to feel good decrying his misdeeds and sheer buffoonery - and its even a little fun and carthartic to boot! Everyone wins right? He's gonna be gone soon! Right? WRONG! His policy legacy will take years to overcome and the political norms we've lost may never come back. But we can't talk more about that because we have to get pissed about a tweet or some scandalous Id-Pol news fodder.
What we lack is any sort of ability to zoom out. Maybe a show as you discuss is a way past that. Narratives are a great way to get "into" a complex world view.
I take major issue with the subtitle of this article.
This indicative of the broad tendency towards Fox News and Alt-Right exceptionalism in liberal coverage of the reactionary/neo-fascist movement in America. Time and again, the rise of overt white nationalism is seen as something new and surprising even though its lineage is traceable to the pre-American Revolution slave patrols.
Moreover, the simple asking of this question implies that Americans have not been subjected to jingoistic propaganda through the corporate/state media apparatus for a century. Consider the Creel Commission which stirred the isolationist Pre-WWI American people to war in the mid and late 1910s. Wasn't the media storm in the lead up to the Iraq and Afghan Wars utter propaganda?
Sure, Fox News is overt partisan propaganda. But so are MSNBC, CNN, and Meet the Press. Any program which is overtly deferential to people in positions of authority and "the official story," whose coverage serves to advance the policy positions of the corporate/state revolving door is propaganda. The New Yorker is just incapable of realizing this fact or critiquing it because it is part of the Neo-Liberal propaganda machine that has existed for a century.