Archive for the ‘media’ tag
republicrat
Difference in such a system is reduced to catchy, emotional sound bites, which serve to polarize viewers, spectators and ultimately, voters, while simulating difference - enacting a facade of political diversity. In the end, the winners in such a set-up - that amounts to a perpetual, media-sparring match for cap feathers among the self-appointed wealthy and commercial society elected, or 'electable,' contestants - are the corporations, who infuse enough capital to the Republi-crat majority to decide the outcomes of political policy questions. So the corporations (and aristocratic interests) get what they want, at the expense of the rank and file public, year after year, ad infinitum.

tactical media
tactical media itself is concerned with temporary destabilization rather than permanent transformation.
http://www.an-atlas.com/contents/iaa_iaa.html

Nettime
nettime ‘neither promotes a dominant euphoria (to sell products) nor continues the cynical pessimism, spread by journalists and intellectuals in the ‘old’ media who generalize about ‘new’ media with no clear understanding of their communication aspects.’
media
If you are reading the mainstream newspapers or listening to National
Public Radio, you are contributing to your own mental illness, no
matter how astute you believe yourself to be at “balancing” or
“deciphering” the code.