Peter Jennings is surprised about the complexity of basic American thinking. He fails to realize how media savvy even the least of us has become. In fact, the least of us tend to be the more atuned to coverage. He was surprised that people weren't reacting as much to the daily news swirl that he and the rest of them are so sucked into. We tend to think more long term, more abstractly. Peter Jennings doesn't get that we just assimilate the daily shit and pile it onto an even bigger pile of shit entitled: "the shit we already knew". This comes as a shock to him? It's funny to think that these heads don't stop talking long enough to think about what watching all their blab does to a person, how it just adds and adds.
- posted by Sean Wheeler @ 11:09 PM