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I don’t have strong feelings about this tbh, but the LA times and CNN also went with the hit-tv-show framing. Not an accident. The committee hired tv producers. I didn’t watch because I don’t like reality tv. Something something metamodern performance fiction.
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I don’t even need to read the article. The fact that this sentence appeared on the ⁦@nytimes⁩ website is fucking disgusting. Get rid of this now or forever carry in the heart of your organization the terrible sin of turning justice into entertainment.
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Alan likens this to making executions public spectacles. Dunno if the analogy holds. But I have no desire to watch those either. But then I do enjoy war footage as a dramatic spectacle. Doesn’t mean I condone war, let alone actual war produced for entertainment.
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I feel like I should watch purely as media theory education. But it’s not the sort of movie I’d watch either.
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But in general, I think it’s not good to be too judgmental about production or consumption of information. There is no innocent version of either. There’s always a loaded narrative of production or consumption and incremental harm/good to villains/heroes.
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I mean, I have no affection for the NYT, but one could argue that Alan is producing a sensationalized thread of meta commentary about media morality, gif *his* meta-media audience on twitter. There are people who think QTing as I did with this thread is the same thing.
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