I awoke Monday morning to see the BBC Breakfast News... and I use that last word lightly, to see a Youtube
video of President Trump wrestling a person to the floor with the CNN logo superimposed onto the person
that Trump had body-slammed.
(And let's not go there with the trending anomalies of YouTube!)
It was from a 2007 piece of footage at Wrestling extravaganza that the majority of people accept as a type
of entertainment and someone had altered the clip to offer a visual metaphor of the current President's view
of how he is treating a section of the mainstream media.
This kind of emotionally-charged artwork is common in the cyberworld and it's use bridges a gulf between
juvenile commentary of a world that seems to cater for the wealthy and powerful and a realm where messages
of influence can be offered for debate.
In itself, the video is humourous considering the connotations it evokes with a fairly counterfeit display of a
sport laid against the manner that many news-outlets express their negative corporate opinions of the man
in the red tie.
But what struck me was the way the BBC presented it with who I believe is an American-toned Journalist
sitting on the couch -that I paid for via my TV licence, explaining that Trump's assault on CNN is partially due
to the suggestions of a Russia-Trump collusion being proved correct!
The Presenters or Journalists never mentioned the Veritas revelations or how Comey stated that the President
wasn't under investigation and the DNC problem never surfaced. The overall narrative was that President Trump
created this, tweeted it out and the viewer is nudged to assume the burly Leader of the Free World was bathing
in his display of bullying.
In another subtle manner, the Breakfast News programme was keeping the idea that this particular network and
via association, all mainstream outlets are credible in their reporting and also sustaining the waning Russia-Trump
narrative.
(There's an I-Player access to Monday's episode that hasn't been uploaded yet on the BBC website as I type
this, but if I can access it, I'll link it.)
What also caught my breath as I watched the sad attempt to keep the pyschological enforcement going, was
how the established media still doesn't get it... they seem unable to understand how technololgy and the internet
have bred a new kind of prospective voter and how Trump tapped into it at the level that where he could take
advantage of that world.
I'm too old to talk about memes in a manner that would justify their value and when I pull my pants up higher than
my hips, it means that I'll fail to be able to explain the weaponising of the written word on the internet.
But it works and any comedian will tell you, humour regarding a serious subject makes greater in-roads to a person's
psyche than a mono-toned voice telling you how to perceive the information it offers.
There's a attitude of superiority that the mainstream media must maintain and because it's so embedded in
that pompous, self-generated class, it's an area that they're subconsciously unable to change.
Many of them see themselves as better than those they constantly propose to serve with un-biased, genuine reports,
partly due to the celebrity-like status they've created and a place where over the years, everyone -includng the unwitting
public and political figures, have accepted their rules.
But Donald Trump didn't and neither did the people who worked his campaign, they seemed to have taken the curious
and new outlook of fighting the media war on two fronts.
First:
By-pass conduits that want you to fail and utilise networks that the establishment frown upon because of it's
growing effects on ratings and advertisements. The-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend.
Second:
Access the public voters at the grass roots and play it as the accepted underdog that the enemy perceives as
non-threatening. Be the buddy... be the person who's the same as the hoped-for voter and don't insult the them by
attempting to hide your success. This will show that you're genuine and not ashamed of achievement.
Trump does rallies where he engages with the public. If he f*cks up, they see it as it is, if he makes people applaud
or boo, theres no spin on it by some shill or biased reporter. The media can only show visual accounts and talk over
Trump's speeches and with a lot of people in America, they have asked the question 'why would they do that?'!
Marcus Aurelius said:
'The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane...'
To put it into modern jargon, if the game is rigged, change the game.
video of President Trump wrestling a person to the floor with the CNN logo superimposed onto the person
that Trump had body-slammed.
(And let's not go there with the trending anomalies of YouTube!)
It was from a 2007 piece of footage at Wrestling extravaganza that the majority of people accept as a type
of entertainment and someone had altered the clip to offer a visual metaphor of the current President's view
of how he is treating a section of the mainstream media.
This kind of emotionally-charged artwork is common in the cyberworld and it's use bridges a gulf between
juvenile commentary of a world that seems to cater for the wealthy and powerful and a realm where messages
of influence can be offered for debate.
In itself, the video is humourous considering the connotations it evokes with a fairly counterfeit display of a
sport laid against the manner that many news-outlets express their negative corporate opinions of the man
in the red tie.
But what struck me was the way the BBC presented it with who I believe is an American-toned Journalist
sitting on the couch -that I paid for via my TV licence, explaining that Trump's assault on CNN is partially due
to the suggestions of a Russia-Trump collusion being proved correct!
The Presenters or Journalists never mentioned the Veritas revelations or how Comey stated that the President
wasn't under investigation and the DNC problem never surfaced. The overall narrative was that President Trump
created this, tweeted it out and the viewer is nudged to assume the burly Leader of the Free World was bathing
in his display of bullying.
In another subtle manner, the Breakfast News programme was keeping the idea that this particular network and
via association, all mainstream outlets are credible in their reporting and also sustaining the waning Russia-Trump
narrative.
(There's an I-Player access to Monday's episode that hasn't been uploaded yet on the BBC website as I type
this, but if I can access it, I'll link it.)
What also caught my breath as I watched the sad attempt to keep the pyschological enforcement going, was
how the established media still doesn't get it... they seem unable to understand how technololgy and the internet
have bred a new kind of prospective voter and how Trump tapped into it at the level that where he could take
advantage of that world.
I'm too old to talk about memes in a manner that would justify their value and when I pull my pants up higher than
my hips, it means that I'll fail to be able to explain the weaponising of the written word on the internet.
But it works and any comedian will tell you, humour regarding a serious subject makes greater in-roads to a person's
psyche than a mono-toned voice telling you how to perceive the information it offers.
There's a attitude of superiority that the mainstream media must maintain and because it's so embedded in
that pompous, self-generated class, it's an area that they're subconsciously unable to change.
Many of them see themselves as better than those they constantly propose to serve with un-biased, genuine reports,
partly due to the celebrity-like status they've created and a place where over the years, everyone -includng the unwitting
public and political figures, have accepted their rules.
But Donald Trump didn't and neither did the people who worked his campaign, they seemed to have taken the curious
and new outlook of fighting the media war on two fronts.
First:
By-pass conduits that want you to fail and utilise networks that the establishment frown upon because of it's
growing effects on ratings and advertisements. The-enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend.
Second:
Access the public voters at the grass roots and play it as the accepted underdog that the enemy perceives as
non-threatening. Be the buddy... be the person who's the same as the hoped-for voter and don't insult the them by
attempting to hide your success. This will show that you're genuine and not ashamed of achievement.
Trump does rallies where he engages with the public. If he f*cks up, they see it as it is, if he makes people applaud
or boo, theres no spin on it by some shill or biased reporter. The media can only show visual accounts and talk over
Trump's speeches and with a lot of people in America, they have asked the question 'why would they do that?'!
Marcus Aurelius said:
'The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane...'
To put it into modern jargon, if the game is rigged, change the game.
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.