Media signs of the Apocalypse
By Sean Aqui | Related entries in Israel, Media, NewsI’ve been noticing signs of the approaching Apocalypse lately.
Yesterday, for instance, CNN devoted an hour of prime-time programming to…. Larry King and Dr. Phil dissecting the Alec Baldwin voicemail brouhaha.
Today, though, the earth really shifted. I find myself agreeing — in substance, if not in tone — with the conservative whackjobs Little Green Footballs.
They wrote about a Harvard study examining the media’s coverage of last summer’s war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The upshot: Hezbollah tightly controlled media access to its side of the conflict, and thus controlled how it was portrayed. The Israelis, on the other hand, allowed far more unfettered access, and were victimized by it — in part by the sheer number of images showing Israelis shooting at things, and the paucity of images showing Hezbollah doing the same thing. The result: Israel looked like the aggressor, even though Hezbollah started the fight by kidnapping two Israelis and killing eight others.
(continued at Midtopia)
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June 15th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Hell! the worlds been ending since the beginning of time as far as humanity is concerned. It was inevitable I suppose, give a monkey a brain and he will find a way to destroy himself along with the rest of the monkey’s.
I suppose one feel has to feel a sense of indifference at the whole thing. It seems there is little we can do to steer away from the seemingly inevitable. There is just too many points of view and hostilities in the world it is of wonder that we haven’t had a catastophe on a global scale, yet you could point to many contemporary things and come to the conclusion that we are, such global warming, nuclear proliferation, world-wide pollution on a frightening scale.
This reminds of all the religious cults that preach about the Millennial Expectancy, where Jesus comes back to earth to “cleanse” of all the non-believers and do a sort of house-makeover, making the earth pristine again, like, well, before humans started messing it up. But ironically, with each of these even-year prophecies nothing happens, 1800 came and nothing! no Jesus, no Judgement Day, then 1900 and 2000, each time with a devoted group of religiously pious Christians and other religions swearing by the end of days.
I’ve come to the conclusion it really doesn’t matter, if we blow ourselves up then I guess that’s what we get. We couldn’t hack the evolutionary arm of time, we cracked under the press and monkey will destroy himself. Sigh! well, American Idol is on tonight, got to go watch it cause ya know? there’s nothing greater than American Idol and god knows the worlds greatest challenge voting for your favorite Idol.