so long, woodwork.
this is a screenshot of the FRONT PAGE of cnn.com, taken about 5 mins ago. a large portion of the stories are about totally ridiculous, irrelevant, "funny" shit that involve a very small amount of players. obviously having so many of these stories attracting this much attention at once is rare, but i DO see a lot of this in the media, especially local, "quirky" sources.
i agree with cram. obviously there needs to be a motive before talk about method gets too involved, but the media does pick up on small events. the issue is what events it decides to pick up on, with countless weird things happening every second. LOST RING TURNS UP IN FUDGE. a year or so ago, my grandmother discovered a wedding ring in a crabcake and returned it to the worker at the deli who had lost it. it's an almost identical situation. would cnn have written that story up if my family had made the effort to communicate it? we live in maryland, crab-town; it would have made a nice blurb. if not cnn, i'm almost certain a baltimore/local-based newspaper would have picked it up. and that's a larger audience than almost any stray forum.
if we want a REVOLUTION, yeah, manpower is key. but if all we want is attention, or advertising, it might be possible to manipulate the media on a smaller scale.
tl;dr: cnn posts neighborhood oddities on their front page. i am interested, and i have time. i would need training. hi, PD. thanks for letting me lurk forever.
-Steady
this is a screenshot of the FRONT PAGE of cnn.com, taken about 5 mins ago. a large portion of the stories are about totally ridiculous, irrelevant, "funny" shit that involve a very small amount of players. obviously having so many of these stories attracting this much attention at once is rare, but i DO see a lot of this in the media, especially local, "quirky" sources.
i agree with cram. obviously there needs to be a motive before talk about method gets too involved, but the media does pick up on small events. the issue is what events it decides to pick up on, with countless weird things happening every second. LOST RING TURNS UP IN FUDGE. a year or so ago, my grandmother discovered a wedding ring in a crabcake and returned it to the worker at the deli who had lost it. it's an almost identical situation. would cnn have written that story up if my family had made the effort to communicate it? we live in maryland, crab-town; it would have made a nice blurb. if not cnn, i'm almost certain a baltimore/local-based newspaper would have picked it up. and that's a larger audience than almost any stray forum.
if we want a REVOLUTION, yeah, manpower is key. but if all we want is attention, or advertising, it might be possible to manipulate the media on a smaller scale.
tl;dr: cnn posts neighborhood oddities on their front page. i am interested, and i have time. i would need training. hi, PD. thanks for letting me lurk forever.
-Steady