Response to Cultural Jamming

Response to Cultural Jamming

Different governments in this and other countries have been using the media to manipulate images and the news to manipulate voters. Lately, I have been noticing, more than ever, governments are using obvious and crude methods to "sell" themselves to the public. It's interesting how in the article the author mentions Ronald Regan and defines this situation as a tv democracy in the use and manipulation of the media.

I feel threatened knowing that the people that are filtering the news are the same people that are creating the news. For example, CNN/General Electric transmitted the war in Iraq which they (GE) were profiting from. This is sad.

This commercialization of information is a product of profit motives, not civic good. TV is used primarily to sell commercial products to the viewers. The programming is only there to fill space and to bring viewers to the set.

It's funny that our news is created, released and delivered by corporations. We should be demanding our news to come from a source that is not driven by money, but the truth, and as objectively as it possibly can be. News these days is made to be "sold" not to inform. We should not accept this.

The media complex mirrors of the corporate/government power structures.

Reality is not what it used to be . . . the engines of industrial complexes are now producing images, theatre and media events, rather than goods or products.

Actions of intervention against the media are intriguing - in many ways, jamming has become illegal because there is no other way to be subversive against this giant complex.