Re:WaterBear – A free library of documentaries and shorts
by specialist on Saturday September 04, 2021 @09:20AM
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> the more you watch them
aka Media literacy.
> the more you see how most often they are biased
What's the alternative?
> ...here is an awesome video that shows how editing can do wonders for how we perceive things ... https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI
That's quite good. Nice point about how better gear enabled the reality TV format.
I did some radio and TV stuff as a kid. (A vocational tech program. Student radio, cable public access, job shadowing, "journalism", etc.)
Transmuted me into a "Kill your television" type crank. I can't watch "the news" without yelling at the TV.
As a counterpoint: Robert X Cringley's NerdTV had the radical notion of sharing all of the source footage. Viewers could watch his edit, highlight reels, and teasers. And then they could also make their own.
Sadly, this format hasn't caught on.
Anyway. It seems to me that Zoomers will prove to be the most media literate generation. And so therefore the least susceptible to ham-fisted narrative techniques. Certainly compared to Boomers.
aka Media literacy.
> the more you see how most often they are biased
What's the alternative?
> ...here is an awesome video that shows how editing can do wonders for how we perceive things ... https://youtu.be/BBwepkVurCI
That's quite good. Nice point about how better gear enabled the reality TV format.
I did some radio and TV stuff as a kid. (A vocational tech program. Student radio, cable public access, job shadowing, "journalism", etc.)
Transmuted me into a "Kill your television" type crank. I can't watch "the news" without yelling at the TV.
As a counterpoint: Robert X Cringley's NerdTV had the radical notion of sharing all of the source footage. Viewers could watch his edit, highlight reels, and teasers. And then they could also make their own.
Sadly, this format hasn't caught on.
Anyway. It seems to me that Zoomers will prove to be the most media literate generation. And so therefore the least susceptible to ham-fisted narrative techniques. Certainly compared to Boomers.