VL-IV: Chap 10 - p. 195

[Josiah Miller]

"When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face.  Who could withstand the light?  What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mug shots of the bought and sold?  Hearing the synchronized voices repeat the same formulas, evasive, affectless, cut off from whatever they had once been by promises of what they would never get to collect on?"
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"'...because too many of us are learning how to pay attention.'"

This is a great piece of writing here where Frenesi answers the question the narrator asked.  What viewer could believe...?  Once broadcasting was able to  reach a larger and larger audience, the biased media used this to their advantage and now we have 24 hour cable news networks like Fox and MSNBC getting such high ratings with their clowns imposing their views onto the public who watch this.  In Chomsky's book "Language and Responsibility, he discusses the media in Chapter 1 entitled Politics.

"What you face here is a very effective kind of ideological control, because one can remain under the impression that censorship does not exist, and in a narrow technical sense that is correct.  You will not be imprisoned if you discover the facts, not even if you proclaim them whenever you can.  But the results remain much the same as if there were real censorship.  Social reality is generally concealed by the intelligentsia."  (Chomsky p. 31)

I believe this is the problem that Frenesi and her group are facing.  And there are only a handful of people out there like Frenesi.  I believe Chomsky says also in the book that if you want to make a change that you have to start changing the media.

Josiah