M&D truthtelling, history & I.F. Stone(WAS Publisher's Weekly (fwd)

[Ted Samsel]

adinn sez: 
> 
> You should try watching television with the sound off. The effect may
> have been particularly strong for me as I don't have a TV so am
> unaware of the sounds which accompany the images. But it rapidly
> becomes clear how primitively, rawly manipulative the imagery is.
> Graphic styles, colours, settings geographic, social and conceptual
> etc. all push push push at you. Adverts are bad but news and current
> affairs are the worst. Combine these visuals with sound and the spoken
> message distracts you while the visuals infiltrate your consciousness
> i.e. divide the left and right sides of the brain and conquer. And
> it's all so horribly professional.

McLuhan's ghost is a-gonna gitcha fer that. 

Or you could have George Formby 78s playing instead of the sound. Or
Harry Lauder. Or Ivor Novello.

"Down in Nagasaki where the women chew tobakky
and the really like to wikky wakky woo!"

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net 
  "I want the frimfram sauce with the orson-fay
         and chifaffa on the side...."