[Air-l] Re: peace

[Mia Consalvo]

Actually I would argue that the coverage is distinctively NOT like a 
videogame, which is, after all, interactive. It could be like a cutscene 
in a game that you are forced to watch, before getting back to *your* 
role.

Perhaps that's one reason-- little control over the outcome. How many 
protests have we seen, and how little has it seemed to matter about what 
happens? In that situation, why not withdraw?

Mia

On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 06:41  AM, Ildiko Kaposi wrote:

> To Steve's question, another possible and wholly speculative answer 
> could be that perhaps people avoid discussing the war also because they 
> honestly do not see/feel it as having an impact on their lives?
>
> Nancy and others have pointed the finger at the news media for 
> presenting the war in a video game fashion. That could be true (I don't 
> have access to US network news in Hungary), and it would account for 
> making the war an unreal spectacle.
>