> It didn't mention if these protesters were 'the good ones' at all.
I'm not sure if you are purposely using an Adam Curtis-ism or not here.
In Curtis' "Power of Nightmares" he discusses the simplification of news to "good versus evil". This is obviously a huge oversimplification. Sometimes the "good" swap places with the "evil", the victims become the people committing attrocities. This causes a problem: the changeable nature of "who is the goodie?" doesn't fit in with simplified news reporting. To explain the role switch to viewers, a lot of additional information needs to be provided. This would kill ratings. He argues that this change has led to the death of tv news.
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> It didn't mention if these protesters were 'the good ones' at all.
I'm not sure if you are purposely using an Adam Curtis-ism or not here.
In Curtis' "Power of Nightmares" he discusses the simplification of news to "good versus evil". This is obviously a huge oversimplification. Sometimes the "good" swap places with the "evil", the victims become the people committing attrocities. This causes a problem: the changeable nature of "who is the goodie?" doesn't fit in with simplified news reporting. To explain the role switch to viewers, a lot of additional information needs to be provided. This would kill ratings. He argues that this change has led to the death of tv news.
You can download the dvd here: http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares