> It's always interesting to me to compare the actual
> text of the conference to what finally makes its way
> into print -- what is left out, in particular, and how
> quotes get contextually "framed." Boy, those giant
> Putin press conferences that last for two hours
> usually compressed into a paragraph.
>
I think that's the point. How it works. The "media" is being hypnotized.
(Fascinated, perhaps?)
That's what I've always felt about Noam Chomsky's presentations... The message isn't in what's being said, it's in the whole presentation... mannerisms, tone of voice... The psyche is massaged a certain way that allows for easier assimilation of certain
_PARTICULAR_
information.
With politics, we have "media feeding frenzies". In other circles it's "pomp & circumstance".
FWIW, John Cage, Composer, wrote a composition "Silence", in which, if I recall correctly, the music he wanted to convey was in between the piano's tones.
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