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every time i see shit about how major cities are supposedly being & #39;burned down& #39; i remember how my - liberal, democrat - family talked to me the first time i saw them while i was living in baltimore during the uprising, and think of how badly we need to destroy cable news
fox news, cnn, msnbc, all of them, they& #39;re all constantly selling to the audience that still watches TV news regularly (or even hyper-regularly, constantly) that a broken window or a trash fire or some random graffiti is actually the whole city being nuked
altho honestly i shouldn& #39;t even just say cable news, local news is a massive problem here and has only become more of a problem as right wingers have bought up every station
one of the things i think of isn& #39;t just the contrast with the reporting (or lack thereof) on people rioting after sports victories/losses but how people see shit every day like some random property damage and shrug it off but news packages that same damage to melt their brains
you& #39;ve seen broken windows before, you& #39;ve seen minor fires before, you& #39;ve seen graffiti before, you& #39;ve seen busted up cars before, and you likely managed to get on with your day just fine when perceiving it in real life, but on the news it& #39;s all made to bomb your cortex
this was really the big thing when people were losing their shit over protesters showing up at tucker carlson& #39;s house and maybe leaving a bit of graffiti on his door
like as if you haven& #39;t seen graffiti
tucker got less than 80s people getting their houses egged on halloween
like as if you haven& #39;t seen graffiti
tucker got less than 80s people getting their houses egged on halloween
this is also one of the things i think of when it& #39;s not really generational differences that are problems - anyone who& #39;s getting this TV shock and awe shit fed to them 24/7 will end up like this, young or old. it& #39;s just that older gens are more likely to still watch tv regularly
thinking on it more, i would really, really, REALLY love to see a study on tv watching people& #39;s beliefs, especially on specific events - past and present - and how they fluctuated as news went from "the evening news hour" to "24/7 pump your veins full of anxiety and fear"
like people were getting fed propaganda in the 70s and 80s too, duh, but i wanna see the details of that affects people as it went from "you get this shit once a day" to "you get this every hour of the day, every day" when cable went mainstream
