This is more dumb-show journalism. Perhaps Vladimir Putin recognized that the American press and its master, Wall Street, were more eager for war than his own oligarchs, having figured out more readily how to profit from it at the expense of everybody else. As cyberspace developed in the last 25 years the press saw it as an opportunity to expand its 19th Century imperialist model of incident reportage, bombarding us with incidents, with tunnel vision, with anecdotal reportage and endless punditry. What the press should have seen is the 21st Century possibility of putting events into perspective, of providing context, of connecting the dots. In other words, the press moved backward in cyberspace instead of forward. It used cyberspace to revisit the 19th Century, to advocate for the Raj, for Kitchener in Khartoum, while it cold have used cyberspace to get the big pictures into focus and to hold them there. Intercept, First Look Media and Alternet are examples, but only a few, of media trying to visualize a new journalism. HuffingtonPost started to move in that direction but somehow reversed itself and is now moving backward into trivia.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 15:21:26 +0000
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