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  • December 31, 2016 at 3:18 pm #62065
    wv
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    This is good.

    December 31, 2016 at 3:41 pm #62066
    Zooey
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    Why is there a laugh track?

    December 31, 2016 at 4:46 pm #62068
    wv
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    Zooey wrote:

    Why is there a laugh track?

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    I wondered that too. Maybe its a comment on ‘canned’ tv stories. Ya know.

    December 31, 2016 at 5:49 pm #62070
    wv
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    December 31, 2016 at 7:35 pm #62071
    Zooey
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    For me…here’s the deal…

    This is just another example of why we doomed. And this isn’t even in any of the inner circles of the reasons why when it comes to news. I mean…big deal…there’s a feed of stories that local stations can buy from a source in order to flesh out their hour of “news.”

    Really, the problem is that news is not motivated by illuminating the important stuff that is happening.

    It is motivated by profit.

    And it is cheaper to buy a stupid story from Big Source than it is to send somebody down to City Hall to ask questions. And more people want to see a bit about a puppy that survived a spill off a ledge than by a policy analysis.

    December 31, 2016 at 7:58 pm #62072
    wv
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    Zooey wrote:

    For me…here’s the deal…

    This is just another example of why we doomed. And this isn’t even in any of the inner circles of the reasons why when it comes to news. I mean…big deal…there’s a feed of stories that local stations can buy from a source in order to flesh out their hour of “news.”

    Really, the problem is that news is not motivated by illuminating the important stuff that is happening.

    It is motivated by profit.

    And it is cheaper to buy a stupid story from Big Source than it is to send somebody down to City Hall to ask questions. And more people want to see a bit about a puppy that survived a spill off a ledge than by a policy analysis.

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    Well…yes.

    I saw a little black button the other day that said “Fuck 2016”.

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    “…Pointing to the massive amounts of propaganda spewed by government and institutions around the world, observers have called our era the age of Orwell. But the fact is that Orwell was a latecomer on the scene. As early as World War I, American historians offered themselves to President Woodrow Wilson to carry out a task they called “historical engineering,” by which they meant designing the facts of history so that they would serve state policy. In this instance, the U.S. government wanted to silence opposition to the war. This represents a version of Orwell’s 1984, even before Orwell was writing.”
    N.Chomsky
    in: Wendy McElroy, ‎Carl Watner (1987) The Voluntaryist, Nr. 23-41 (1987), p. 120; Republished in: “Propaganda Review, 1987,” at zpub.com, accessed May 23, 2014.

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