[lbo-talk] Yukos: The Big Ugly

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Sun Jun 19 08:57:53 PDT 2005


Dwayne Monroe wrote:


> Surely, one of the most infuriating aspects of modern media life -- at
> least here in the US where I happen to be nervously sitting at the
> moment -- is the lusty abandonment of narrative consistency and
> removal of even recent history from many 'news' stories.

Perhaps why 1984 needs to be brought up to date. We no longer need a Winston to retroactively edit/change news story to create consistency, our un-conscious does it for them. There is no longer even the expectation of consistency. Our job, it is clear, is to believe the drivel of the day.

Joanna



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