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Monday, 30 January 2017
quote [ a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles ]
A note from the game's creator in the extended.
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sanepride said @ 6:11am GMT on 31st January
Point well taken, only the media does not operate in a vacuum, it is not necessarily an autonomous creature that generates content and amplifies it on its own.
Despicable as Trump may be, he deserves due credit for knowing how to play the media, and how to create and maintain an audience. The media didn't create him or make him president, this was a collaborative process.
sanepride said @ 6:20am GMT on 31st January
Point well taken, only the media does not operate in a vacuum, it is not necessarily an autonomous creature that generates content and amplifies it on its own.
Despicable as Trump may be, he deserves due credit for knowing how to play the media, and how to create and maintain an audience. The media didn't create him or make him president, this was a collaborative process.
But I also question the notion that people are simply empty vessels, waiting to be filled with whatever they're fed and manipulate by the media. Sure it's easy enough to see the people who elected Trump as suckers who got conned, but were they conned by the media, Trump himself, or some larger delusion borne out of cultural/economic disconnection?
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sanepride said @ 6:11am GMT on 31st January
Point well taken, only the media does not operate in a vacuum, it is not necessarily an autonomous creature that generates content and amplifies it on its own.
Despicable as Trump may be, he deserves due credit for knowing how to play the media, and how to create and maintain an audience. The media didn't create him or make him president, this was a collaborative process.
But I also question the notion that people are simply empty vessels, waiting to be filled with whatever they're fed and manipulate by the media. Sure it's easy enough to see the people who elected Trump as suckers who got conned, but were they conned by the media, Trump himself, or some larger delusion borne out of cultural/economic disconnection?
