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	<title>FAIR Blog &#187; militarization</title>
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		<title>Trivial Media Maintains &#039;Mass of Isolated Individuals&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/06/28/trivial-media-maintains-mass-of-isolated-individuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Voiles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pablo Ouziel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spanish sociologist Pablo Ouziel has a new Consortium News essay (6/28/09) describing the consequences of how "we wake up in the morning to hear and watch the newest tragedy that has swept the world's media attention"--whether it's "the tragic crash of an airplane" or "the death of a star." Meanwhile:
Serious events and acts are taking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spanish sociologist Pablo Ouziel has a new <strong>Consortium News</strong> essay (<a href="http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/062809a.html" target="_blank">6/28/09</a>) describing the consequences of how "we wake up in the morning to hear and watch the newest tragedy that has swept the world's media attention"--whether it's "the tragic crash of an airplane" or "the death of a star." Meanwhile:</p>
<blockquote><p>Serious events and acts are taking place everyday which merit serious social debate, yet because of the fact that our societies are deeply fragmented, broken and clashing between each other, we are unable to grant ourselves the necessary pause, required for conciliation and unity.</p>
<p>Because of this, we are easy to control as a mass of isolated individuals, which is held together by norms and regulations, bureaucracies, military and police, and concepts such as the nation state, the church and the corporation.</p>
<p>If we are to stay in this model of society, I fear we will live in perpetual war until we destroy ourselves by not paying attention to the fact that something is drastically wrong.</p></blockquote>
<p><!--preview-break-->Ouziel's digest of exactly <em>what</em> is wrong reads like a list of topics steadfastly avoided by corporate media in the U.S.: "We are living in societies plagued with <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/04/22/glimpsing-journalisms-devouring-black-hole-of-corruption/">corruption</a> at all levels, we are constantly <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3592">expanding</a> our militarized societies <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/01/23/nsa-spied-on-everyone-specifically-targeted-journalists/">surveilled</a> by police forces and colonizing armies, which are rapidly <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=7&amp;issue_area_id=4">eroding</a> our freedoms." See the FAIR magazine <strong>Extra!:</strong> "The Media Ignore Their Core Duty: Arianna Huffington &amp; Glenn Greenwald on Media Accountability" (<a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3693">9–10/08</a>).</p>
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