Spectacular Times

The Media

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar.

Stanislaw Lem

. The Spectacle is not just a collection of images. It is the medium of communication between images and is the means by which the real world is interpreted.

Public Relations

The mass media is spectacular. Even in extremis it is unable to see itself as a participant in real life.

Instead it turns real life into a spectacle - and participates in that.

The spectacle offers 'new lamps for old'. Powerless and alienated in our real community it encourages us to live the community life of Ambridge, Crossroads or Coronation Street.

All is conterfeit.

So confident - it can taunt us with our own gullibility.

Does your life match up to the spectacle?

Isn't real life best left to the experts?

...Enjoy.

The producer sells;

The Consumer buys;

and the COMMODITY gets sold.

The TV companies produce the programmes, the advertisers culture.

That really big commodity. The one that sells all the others.

The mass media turns real life into a comic strip. "The black panther", "The Jackal", "The Penguin". The blood is real but the language is the language of Gotham City.

In the right words.

In the right order.

Without the mass media there can be little effective propoganda.

.... with it there is very little else.

'You might just as well say', added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"'.

Sometimes the mass media will even bite the hand that feeds it.....

.... but it will never bite it off.

It's only Rock n' Roll!

Technological Valium

Programming?