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July 21, 2015
From working in the media, I have seen such set-ups many times:
all the cameras flashing on cue.Tricks of editing and camera angle are used to enhance the “teachable moment”; to condense the narrative into a hard rock of emotion, aimed directly at the boogeyperson’s head. For the media people are pros, too. They know how to adjust the “optics.” Pretty young woman crying: that will sway everyone except the tiny minority who know something about the subject. And they are now tarred with the same brush. Authority : Essays in Idleness
Posted by gerardvanderleun at July 21, 2015 11:36 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Using language most salacious a nimble 20something nymph of the local journalist variety tried to persuade me into a 1 on 1 interview about my thoughts and processes of a killing that occurred immediately behind our Florida compound where no one had been since the calusa's lived there some 800 years ago. This was 15 years ago and if I'd have caved to her whims, and mine, I would not be typing this today.
"Don't start none, there won't be none."
--Static, circa late 20th century.
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at July 22, 2015 5:45 PM