Reply #139: Welcome to DU, Progressive Radical

[davekriss]

I remember from an Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) documentary, a NYC FOX News program manager said, with a sickening grin on his face, "hey, if we don't report it, did it really happen?"

The fetishism of the commodity — the domination of society by "intangible as well as tangible things" — attains its ultimate fulfillment in the spectacle, where the real world is replaced by a selection of images which are projected above it, yet which at the same time succeed in making themselves regarded as the epitome of reality.
-- Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

Of course, who gets to choose the "selection of images" is a very political decision, one just worsened for the American public by the FCC.