CNNNN - how does it fit? (1 Viewer)

[TastesGoodBut]

alot of ppl say CNNNNN is a good supp for frontline... but the truth is i dont see how it fits in at all...

i mean CNNNN doesnt manipulate the truth, or even show how others manipulate the truth. it doesnt show the power of telvision and media or anything...

in fact the only bit of cnnnn or the chaser newspaper i fell usable is the part how they go "on a current affair... really obese kids, the new miracle diet... and really obese social workers trying to rip you off" or whatever


i mean those things at the end of big byte are better... with the three nesreaders giving perspectives on the same story...
i just dont get how CNNNN fits because it is all... untrue and unreal... its all made up - i mean its true but it has nothing to do with the course i rekon.. argh im starting to babble.. ill go to sleep now...

 

[anti]

CNNNN satirises current affairs shows by harnessing typical CA techniques (dramatisations, appearances, whatever whatever).

It makes a big deal about nothing - pretty much what TT and ACA do. It manipulates what we believe is IMPORTANT in society today, and it's sort of the 'end product' of frontline's behind the cameras shindiggery.

It's not necessarily a text you'll want to use, however. It's not long, for one thing, and as you say it doesn't really manipulate the truth.

 

[TastesGoodBut]

hmm fair enough

im thinking of sticking to the more abstract stuff anyway...

a leunig cartoon... and i shall find sumthing else in the next couple of days - should be enough to get me through it fine. for trials at least

 

[anti]

Yeah, for TTT it's actually easier to write about things which don't directly relate to telling the truth.

Looking at newspaper/media articles is useful, but you mightn't want to write about them.