Reversing Radicalism

After discussing the aspects of a radical text, it assumes that it is hardly radical anymore. So what would we consider radical today? To think that there are topics that we have not attempted to address because our minds subconsciously block those thoughts is ironic because it suggests that our biology is definetly affected by society. Just a thought…

Hence the discussion of audience is relevant. Mass communication has made audiences more cynical, which is why the appeal to emotion has overridden fact-driven arguments and messages. Audiences easily can find “facts” and yet also know the constant overturning of “facts” as false. Persuasion is an element audiences are accustomed to.

Furthermore, the Barker chapter on television has a great quote: “News is not an unmediated ‘window-on-the-world’ but a selected and constructed representation constitutive of ‘reality’(316). Everything fed to us has already been filtered and we base our opinions on something that has already been deemed a certain way. Now, it is routine to bash on reality shows because they are constructed with directors, producers, actors, actresses and many other editorial types; however, isn’t reality constructed by the same kinds of boundaries?