Word: newsclips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they--and the audience's sensibilities--ignore significant aspects of the issues at hand. For all Shapiro's revelations on the underlying sexual message of commercial television, he exploits women for laughs just the way advertisers exploit women for sales. It is likely that the audience, laughing at a newsclip of a press conference at which the President fondles Shapiro, in drag, as India's woman prime minister, felt subconsciously self-satisfied at having not been offended by Groove Tube 2's breach of conventional taste. It is not likely they would have laughed or felt so entirely sure...
...cliche. Even those opposed to the war no longer go back to the screaming bloody concrete facts of the conflict. How can we emotionally respond to a seemingly endless series of burned villages, burned babies, mass slayings of civilians? We become spiritually calloused, deadened, unable to face another newsclip of a dying soldier squirming in the mud he has reddened with his blood and intestines, or of ten thousand bodies floating down the Mekong River to the sea. The seven men and two women at Catonsville could not forget...
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