Comments on: Silence the News http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:22:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rachael Hampton http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1987 Rachael Hampton Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:10:45 +0000 http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1987 Me volia... I guess everyone miss the words Random Bollox at then end. Very funny indeed... Me volia…

I guess everyone miss the words Random Bollox at then end. Very funny indeed…

]]> By: Baratunde Thurston http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1951 Baratunde Thurston Fri, 16 May 2008 20:55:34 +0000 http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1951 interesting vid. i was surprised they kept it going for so long. 2 mins of television is VERY expensive to pay for. wonder how the advertisers felt? I'd like to see this form of news media mute in the 48 hours prior to an election. just everybody shut up and let folks vote. or better yet, during the actual voting. Those six hours when they're waiting for the results are the most empty hours of news on television. just yapping talking idiotic heads interesting vid. i was surprised they kept it going for so long. 2 mins of television is VERY expensive to pay for. wonder how the advertisers felt?

I’d like to see this form of news media mute in the 48 hours prior to an election. just everybody shut up and let folks vote. or better yet, during the actual voting. Those six hours when they’re waiting for the results are the most empty hours of news on television.

just yapping talking idiotic heads

]]> By: Prokofy http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1950 Prokofy Fri, 16 May 2008 03:45:49 +0000 http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1950 Oh, stop the Marxist drivel, please. There's no such thing as "the People" dear God, are you still back in the dusty library with Karl in the 19th century?! Media does best when it isn't forcibly ascribed roles, when it isn't told "it has a purpose" or "it must serve as the Voice of the People". That's because people will disagree what that means, what the emphasis should be, WHICH people, and that's politics, and that's ok, but then it begins to tilt and taint the media. Objective news reporting isn't the hopelessly subjective imperialist blah-blah that you imagine. Obviously your blog doesn't serve as "the Voice of the People" and even a multiplicity of Voices of Blogs don't make up the public interest. It's ok to skim. There's a lot of stuff. A lot of it is irrelevant. BBC is pretty much accurate. Breaking news isn't broken; advertising is broken. People are broken. Technology isn't perfect. News is news. There's too much of it in the global village to consume rationally. Do what you can. Oh, stop the Marxist drivel, please. There’s no such thing as “the People” dear God, are you still back in the dusty library with Karl in the 19th century?!

Media does best when it isn’t forcibly ascribed roles, when it isn’t told “it has a purpose” or “it must serve as the Voice of the People”.

That’s because people will disagree what that means, what the emphasis should be, WHICH people, and that’s politics, and that’s ok, but then it begins to tilt and taint the media.

Objective news reporting isn’t the hopelessly subjective imperialist blah-blah that you imagine. Obviously your blog doesn’t serve as “the Voice of the People” and even a multiplicity of Voices of Blogs don’t make up the public interest.

It’s ok to skim. There’s a lot of stuff. A lot of it is irrelevant. BBC is pretty much accurate.

Breaking news isn’t broken; advertising is broken. People are broken. Technology isn’t perfect. News is news. There’s too much of it in the global village to consume rationally. Do what you can.

]]> By: Eric Rice http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1949 Eric Rice Fri, 16 May 2008 03:42:53 +0000 http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1949 Imagine if social media took this approach. For a day, we don't really tweet anything. There's no status to update. ... Imagine if social media took this approach. For a day, we don’t really tweet anything. There’s no status to update.

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]]> By: Clarence http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1948 Clarence Fri, 16 May 2008 03:37:08 +0000 http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1948 <i><b>George</b></i>, I saw that earlier today via a link from GOOD Magazine, and then caught the version I posted (based on the link provided on Flickr). It is getting a lot of exposure today. It too, is really good. George, I saw that earlier today via a link from GOOD Magazine, and then caught the version I posted (based on the link provided on Flickr). It is getting a lot of exposure today. It too, is really good.

]]> By: George http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1947 George Fri, 16 May 2008 03:16:10 +0000 http://doyouknowclarence.com/wordpress/2008/05/silent-news/#comment-1947 I like <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/arbernaut/2476955162/" rel="nofollow">this take</a> even though its take on the silence is a little less ambiguous. I like this take even though its take on the silence is a little less ambiguous.

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