Let's face it. The subject is an untruth. Bloggers have been running around telling people that blogging is a huge phenomenon. It's like the coal industry running around telling people that you can't get baseload from renewables. Take them seriously? No. Why? Because as a person who reads blogs, you already know that all information from a source is never to be taken at face value. This is what we've learnt on the internet. Another important lesson we've learnt about the internet is that unless the stuff we read on the internet supports our world view, it is to be taken with rampant cynicism.
What about if you apply this idea to the mass media. Oops, you already do. Now, instead of one source of information you use with little to no faith in its reliability, you have two. Take note of the fact that even if you have no faith in it, as a source of information, you still use it. No wonder kids are turning into vacuuous, hypersexualised zombies. At least, that's what I saw on Today Tonight and read on this
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The zombpocalyps has started already?!
ReplyDeleteWow, that was a terrible title for an otherwise mundane-common-sense article. I was genuinly expecting to read about an outbreak of zombiism in beauty-pagent-children, and it was just about stalking your children to protect them from stalkers.
More seriously, do you think people really only seek out media that confirms their preconceptions? If so, then why do I keep reading articles on news.com.au? That's a terrible site that clashes with my conceptions...
I actually didn't read that article at all. I just googled hypersexulised teens. After a few minutes perusing the porn sites, i stumble across it and hotlinked it and continued with the smut.
ReplyDeleteMore seriously,
"why do I keep reading articles
on news.com.au? That's a terrible
site that clashes with my conceptions"
is a prime (though slightly more nuanced) example of reading stuff that confirms your biases. Hmmm? It's a reminder of your preconceptions of Murdoch's machine.