MediaNotes

# Immedia: -Notes on today's media, and how it shapes our perceptions and thus our world- STYLE: Informal. Length: Hopefully not too wordy. Aims: 1. To note our insights into how the media shapes out world, and what various media aspects say about our time, our culture, our nature, and our species. To share how media language permeates and shapes our world view. 2. To share our insights and induce that little 'ah-ha!' we get when things connect and generate light over an area larger than merely their relation. x.Add your own reason . This page is a way for us to share our observations and insights into one of the most important factors in our lives: the media. Whether it's tv or the internet, movies or cartoons, comics, books, magazines, painting (and let's not forget music) - media shapes our perceptions, our attention, our thinking, and our (actions. So.. it might be useful for us to observe this process...and the small bits of specific information that are pieces of the larger puzzle. It is also a way - and a place - to center interesting observations. And knowing where things go, and how they relate, is itself a big piece of the puzzle. Oh - a quick word on style. Many of us write enough formal things that places to share our thoughts with each other, need not be so. So while clarity and innovative thought is always preferred, we're looking for transmission of core information here rather than fancy formatting - think conversation rather than lecture. ### Does George Bush Wear a Coaching Earpiece? A few commentators - like Salt Lake City Weekly columnist D.P. Sorensen - write about the subject as if it's common knowledge (20 Mar 2003 Edition): [snip] "When the president appears on public occasions, observers have noticed that he now wears a tiny earpiece. There is speculation that God is telling Mr. Bush what to say, using a celestial wavelength almost impossible for evil-doers to intercept. Some observers think the divine prompting via the earpiece explains the president's propensity for verbal gaffes, such as his comment in February of 2000 that "there is madmen in the world, and there are terror." Just add your comments in the box below! This page is currently not linked, hence is essentially private...

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“Only one channel can be called the channel of political record” – Fox News!! Sun Oct 2 How can this be? What is the basis for saying this??? Alexa 10/04/04 18:37:54 GMT

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May 18.2004 CNN - Judy Woodward - "Should we really be using 'precious time' taken away from our generals in IRaq to answer questions about the Iraqi prisoner abuses" - paraphrased till transcript is found - saying 'yes, it has been a lot of time" - but when did the Iraqi abuse stories start - what, a week ago implication that everyone should let up on the Iraqi prison abuse story because it takes them away from a 'shooting war'. {But let me remind everyone in office and the military - ACCOUNTABILITY IS PART OF YOUR JOB.} -Alexa 05/18/04 19:47:36 GMT