Newsporn
Okay guys, this has been on my mind for awhile, and it's time to get these thoughts down.
This whole Tsunami thing? How everyone is talking about it, how lives have been destroyed, how there are news specials, updates, investigative features? Pictures of the Wreckage. Pain in the Pacific. News at 11 of this boy's struggle to find his mother?
Newsporn, all of it.
You ever met those people who just can't get enough of those "Special Reports" that 60 Minutes piece "Live from the depths of Hell" and want to show you, and have a desperate need to communicate "Just what kind of suffering these people are going through"? Those people are addicted to news. Their news is their porn.
You see where I'm going with this.
TV as an entertainment medium has gotten more sophisticated in that it is planned, it is episodic, and the scandals and outrage are metered to an extent by which most people don't even notice. Particularly for the older people of America, they don't want to look at hard cocks or cumshots. They want to see just how bad the wreckage was. They want to see how much it will cost to fix. What professionals it will take to fix the damage. How long it will take.
There is something in raw humanity, whether it be suffering or struggling or sharing the grief and pain with everyone on screen...its liberating for some.
Remember the DC Sniper? Yeah, I can barely remember him too. But wasn't it exciting? Wasn't it so goddamn interesting to view? And now we have the Tsunami. We have thousands dead. We have horrible, awful things happening over there. Rapes, pillages, looting, riots, famine, starvation, sickness, death. The spotlight of the world shines where it can best get a shimmer. The shiny has yet to wear off on that region of the world, so to speak, but don't worry. In a month or two (tops), we'll be off on some other rant, some other event, something else to fill our Dateline NBC "news" stories with.
And they'll be heartbreaking. It will be a long struggle, a hard road, a glorious journey...but we won't be watching. Newsporn goes in fast moving cycles. I mean, how many times did you watch the plane hit the 2nd tower of the world trade center?
How many times have you seen the waves, water, fucking bodies of people floating dead in the surf?
This isn't say that people are jerking off to the news, far from it. But that intangible good feeling, one closely associated with sexual urges, it gets triggered. People who like this stuff really love it for reasons they probably can't explain. I'm just giving them a term for it.
So the next time a friend of yours is addicted to watching the carnage, the breakdown, the analysis, the talking heads discuss how awful it all is...it's okay, they're just into Newsporn.
It's not just news people, it's Newsporn!
This whole Tsunami thing? How everyone is talking about it, how lives have been destroyed, how there are news specials, updates, investigative features? Pictures of the Wreckage. Pain in the Pacific. News at 11 of this boy's struggle to find his mother?
Newsporn, all of it.
You ever met those people who just can't get enough of those "Special Reports" that 60 Minutes piece "Live from the depths of Hell" and want to show you, and have a desperate need to communicate "Just what kind of suffering these people are going through"? Those people are addicted to news. Their news is their porn.
You see where I'm going with this.
TV as an entertainment medium has gotten more sophisticated in that it is planned, it is episodic, and the scandals and outrage are metered to an extent by which most people don't even notice. Particularly for the older people of America, they don't want to look at hard cocks or cumshots. They want to see just how bad the wreckage was. They want to see how much it will cost to fix. What professionals it will take to fix the damage. How long it will take.
There is something in raw humanity, whether it be suffering or struggling or sharing the grief and pain with everyone on screen...its liberating for some.
Remember the DC Sniper? Yeah, I can barely remember him too. But wasn't it exciting? Wasn't it so goddamn interesting to view? And now we have the Tsunami. We have thousands dead. We have horrible, awful things happening over there. Rapes, pillages, looting, riots, famine, starvation, sickness, death. The spotlight of the world shines where it can best get a shimmer. The shiny has yet to wear off on that region of the world, so to speak, but don't worry. In a month or two (tops), we'll be off on some other rant, some other event, something else to fill our Dateline NBC "news" stories with.
And they'll be heartbreaking. It will be a long struggle, a hard road, a glorious journey...but we won't be watching. Newsporn goes in fast moving cycles. I mean, how many times did you watch the plane hit the 2nd tower of the world trade center?
How many times have you seen the waves, water, fucking bodies of people floating dead in the surf?
This isn't say that people are jerking off to the news, far from it. But that intangible good feeling, one closely associated with sexual urges, it gets triggered. People who like this stuff really love it for reasons they probably can't explain. I'm just giving them a term for it.
So the next time a friend of yours is addicted to watching the carnage, the breakdown, the analysis, the talking heads discuss how awful it all is...it's okay, they're just into Newsporn.
It's not just news people, it's Newsporn!
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