{"id":2246,"date":"2011-08-02T17:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2011-08-02T17:39:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:39:50","slug":"jerry-mander-on-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/jerry-mander-on-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Mander on Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1977, Jerry Mander published a book entitled <em>Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television<\/em>.   In the book, he asserts:<\/p>\n<p>1.  While television may seem useful, interesting, and worthwhile, it actually lays the foundations for autocratic control by altering the physical and mental reactions of viewers to their environment.<\/p>\n<p>2.  By setting up an &#8220;information gate&#8221;, access to which is controlled by a few global corporations,  reality is distorted in the favor of those who set up those gates.<\/p>\n<p>3.  Television affects the minds and bodies of those who watch it, which results in political changes favorable to those who control the medium.<\/p>\n<p>4.  Television has no democratic potential.  It confines all human understanding to a very limited domain.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Obama has sold the American worker down the river, yet again, tell me that television had nothing whatever to do with his actions.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the following video and then go to the library and pick up Mander&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_ptn-cNBJA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Y_ptn-cNBJA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;border=1&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1977, Jerry Mander published a book entitled Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. In the book, he asserts: 1. While television may seem useful, interesting, and worthwhile, it actually lays the foundations for autocratic control by <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/02\/jerry-mander-on-media\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}