No sooner do I post episode 25 of the 666cast which encourages us all to turn off the TV news to avoid it’s stupifying effects, than do I stumble across a post on Frederic Guarino’s tumblr linking to “Tomgram: Juan Cole, The Media as a Security Threat to America” on TomDispatch.com. In part Juan Cole is quoted in the post as saying:
The great Pakistani deluge did not exist, it seems, because it was not on television, would not have delivered audiences to products, and was not all about us. As we saw on September 11, 2001, and again in March 2003, however, the failure of our electronic media to inform the public about centrally important global developments is itself a security threat to the republic.
Earlier today, Frederic also reblogged this:
further proof US media is insular to the point of being ridiculous
Wow.
All right, so I guess I should have said turn off ALL mainstream media in the US, instead of just TV. :
Jesus, (if we can’t learn what’s really going on in the world) we’re fucked.
