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September 6, 2005
News, Lullabies and tears in anchor-men's eyes.
I like these lines from Elliot Smith's The News...
Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die?
At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes?
... but are the TV news just lullabies, as the song says?
If you believe in a Chomskian "conspiration of the system", then yes, perhaps they are - because they're shielding us the full truth. If the news are lullabies, then life's a dream.
The weird thing is: people in Iraq and New Orleans were and are dying. For real. That doesn't put me to sleep.
Posted by dr at September 6, 2005 11:14 AM
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