Media in the time of War

My eyes were really opened up when viewing the short movie "Independent Media during the time of War," which was essentially Amy Goodman of New York City's Democracy Now!
discussing the effects of modern day propaganda within the media. Really a great short film. Here is a bit I found on YouTube with her discussing ideas very similar to that portrayed in the film.

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Focus the Nation

Overall, this was easy to put together and flowed relatively smoothly. The hardest part was just clipping the different shots together into something that we were actually proud of and wanted other people to see. Other than that though, this was great fun and easy to do.

E-Trade Baby

Memoir

My media experience throughout my life has been one full of technology and the “latest and the greatest”. Ever since I was a small child, I remember being fortunate to have a computer to play simple games on, as well as full exposure to television and movies. There are numerous videos of me as a toddler being absolutely obsessed with watching commercials on the TV. As soon as the show my family was watching would come back on, I went back to my playing without a care about what it was…it was the commercials I liked.

At a little bit older, I was very much into reading various books. My favorite as a little kid were imaginative books, full of dragons and mystery, allowing me to go places even farther than the movies and television I was watching could take me. As I grew, my taste in books began to change and I became interested in thick and more intense books. Current events and contemporary books allowed me to know what was going on in the world, and I also became interested in reading various magazines and newspapers in order to keep up to date.

Perhaps my greatest exposure to media is through music. Even while I was in my mother’s womb, my father would put headphones on her belly and play me various songs by some of his favorite bands. Throughout my life, music as been a huge part of who I am, and I attribute that very much to my fathers influence. Through him, I have become a fan of all types of music, and have played in various bands since high school, wearing my influences on my sleeve.

Today, I am on the frontline of the media force. I am an avid blogger and keep a blog about music and current trends, sharing my opinions and ideas with the rest of the online world. On top of my blog, there are roughly 20 websites that I check every day, keeping in touch with friends and current events as often as I possibly can. I am the proud owner of a MacBook, which helps me easily do what I love to do. I also have some amazing music production programs, allowing me to turn what I love into a physical product that I can share with the world online as well. I feel like today, it is only necessary to ensure that I am up to date with the “latest and the greatest,” and I will continue to do so as long as technology keeps expanding.

Ahh yes...the Feed.

Upon reading the first section of M.T. Anderson's "Feed," I can't help but question whether or not something like this is going to exist in the near or distant future. Is the media world really going to go as far to invade our bodies with micro-cosmos in order to keep track of us and allow what information we receive? Something like this is scary to a radical liberal from the great state of Maine. Being a firm believer in doing whatever the hell I want, I think I would bail into the wilderness before letting something like a "feed" into my brain. But then again...things are already pretty bad...We are constantly bombarded with endless flows of media and messages, all of which we are taking in and comprehending on some sort of psychological level. It's just that we are so pre-occupied with everything we are involved in, we don't necessarily understand the capabilities of such exposure. Interesting...I continue to read...