
A mental health plan for when the News is overwhelming
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The Borders Between Journalism and News Media
i want to make a distinction between journalism and reporting and news media. What the media wants is your continual, consistent attention. And this isn't bulsh it. This is reality. The rack war of 19 91 was the first proper war that happened when 24 hour news channels existed. So it was presented as highly edited entertainment, highly edited entertainment that was one version of the truth. I don't want to be too high foloting, but i'm going to present the theories of a philosopher called john badrelard, french philosopher. He's spoken about baudrelard before on earlier casts. And bodelard's theory of hyper reality.
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