Debrix: geopolitics is so media-infested as to be inevitably tabloid. He says the y2k scare showed how media could fashion fear almost from scratch. The media used 9 / 11 to scare the public, and still does today, he says.
Debrix: geopolitics is so media-infested as to be inevitably tabloid. He says the y2k scare showed how media could fashion fear almost from scratch. The media used 9 / 11 to scare the public, and still does today, he says.
Debrix: geopolitics is so media-infested as to be inevitably tabloid. He says the y2k scare showed how media could fashion fear almost from scratch. The media used 9 / 11 to scare the public, and still does today, he says.
increasingly throughout the world, geopolitics is so media-infested as to be inevitably tabloid. (Paragraph 2)
I agree with this statement because most of
our media today focuses on the bad news and gossip. Most if it isnt true at all and people still believe it.
To him, the Y2K scare was important
because it demonstrated how the media could fashion fear almost from scratch.
This still happens today. For example, the
December 21st, 2012 scare that had many people believe that the world was going to end o that day because the Mayan Calendar ended on that day.
(P3)
Clearly, this discourse did not need the 9 11
attacks to be deployed in American cultural and academic circles. (P4)
The media used 9/11 to scare the public, and
still does today. They scared the public into approving the Patriot Act which violates out privacy.
Likewise, the last chapter in the book is a
reading of how different images offered by the media invite readings by the public that first invoke fear, and then invoke a work on the self that will make it possible to deal with that fear. (P5)