perverted politics
bear with me on this one, i've got a number of things i need to introduce here before it will make sense
the (financial) times we live in
I was reading the FT the other day. Amongst the commentary and the letters page were Americans who were eloquent and sage about the negative effect their present leaders are having on the world, and their own image. that the road to national security is not through guns but by building ideological bridges; to make it less likely that the west is something to be hated. to not be a bully. It remains a shame, I sat there thinking, that more american citizens are not enlightened enough to see this. The fact that the polls in the us elections are even close is testament to how ignorant some of them are. it is not particularly even their fault - have you seen fox news recently? at least when we looked at Goebbel's output in school history class, we knew it was nazi propaganda. do some americans even know that some of their news channels pump them full of propaganda daily?
depression
I got depressed. When the corporation rules both the airwaves and the policymakers (through inducements / party funding), is there any hope for the masses to really have a chance to make up their own minds?
baltic breasts
In Riga and Tallinn some pubs have TV's. Not special, but in my experience pubs with an idle TV will either have it:
- showing 'background sport'
- showing 'background music' - usually MTV
- off
Noticeably, the pubs I mention were showing 'Fashion TV'. Fashion TV is a lot of breasts and legs set to music. It actually works shockingly well in a pub environment, although it can kill conversation completely :) So much so, that on a Thursday night, James and I were having a beer in PuPu lounge, Riga and ALL of the people on stools at the bar were transfixed by fashion tv. Mind you, they did have it on a big screen :)
1+1=2
I know what we can do; propaganda wars. But we don't need to start a news network - fashionTV shows us the way. screening a few fashion shows and playing music is cheap tv. Propaganda wars are never pretty, but perhaps (courtesy of yamila diaz rahi) this offering can be.
Premise: media propaganda works
Premise: sex sells
Solution: Think fashionTV crossed with Bloomberg crossed with Michael Moore. The models and the music remain. The bloomberg ticker scrolls across pumping you full of accurate propaganda, moore-style. Those guys and girls in PuPu lounge and wherever else are still transfixed by legs and breasts and the latest outfits, but once in a while they might take in some of the home truths scrolling across the bottom of their screen.
Campaign slogan
"you don't want bush, instead have a brazilian...."
i'll get me coat
the (financial) times we live in
I was reading the FT the other day. Amongst the commentary and the letters page were Americans who were eloquent and sage about the negative effect their present leaders are having on the world, and their own image. that the road to national security is not through guns but by building ideological bridges; to make it less likely that the west is something to be hated. to not be a bully. It remains a shame, I sat there thinking, that more american citizens are not enlightened enough to see this. The fact that the polls in the us elections are even close is testament to how ignorant some of them are. it is not particularly even their fault - have you seen fox news recently? at least when we looked at Goebbel's output in school history class, we knew it was nazi propaganda. do some americans even know that some of their news channels pump them full of propaganda daily?
depression
I got depressed. When the corporation rules both the airwaves and the policymakers (through inducements / party funding), is there any hope for the masses to really have a chance to make up their own minds?
baltic breasts
In Riga and Tallinn some pubs have TV's. Not special, but in my experience pubs with an idle TV will either have it:
- showing 'background sport'
- showing 'background music' - usually MTV
- off
Noticeably, the pubs I mention were showing 'Fashion TV'. Fashion TV is a lot of breasts and legs set to music. It actually works shockingly well in a pub environment, although it can kill conversation completely :) So much so, that on a Thursday night, James and I were having a beer in PuPu lounge, Riga and ALL of the people on stools at the bar were transfixed by fashion tv. Mind you, they did have it on a big screen :)
1+1=2
I know what we can do; propaganda wars. But we don't need to start a news network - fashionTV shows us the way. screening a few fashion shows and playing music is cheap tv. Propaganda wars are never pretty, but perhaps (courtesy of yamila diaz rahi) this offering can be.
Premise: media propaganda works
Premise: sex sells
Solution: Think fashionTV crossed with Bloomberg crossed with Michael Moore. The models and the music remain. The bloomberg ticker scrolls across pumping you full of accurate propaganda, moore-style. Those guys and girls in PuPu lounge and wherever else are still transfixed by legs and breasts and the latest outfits, but once in a while they might take in some of the home truths scrolling across the bottom of their screen.
Campaign slogan
"you don't want bush, instead have a brazilian...."
i'll get me coat
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