Watching this for the first time 12-or-so years after it originally aired, it's eerie how very relevant/prescient it still is, from coverage of riots (/the potential for riots/violence at mass demonstrations) to media coverage of vaccine skepticism to the build-them-up-to-knock-them-down-to-redemption-story-arc of celebrities/pseudo-celebrities/reality TV personalities/celebrity-adjacents to media coverage of mass shootings.
Also interesting to recognize some ideas/observations/critiques from Newswipe bleed into Black Mirror
And this, on the coverage of Diana: "...the entire saga left me, and I suspect millions of other people like me, feeling weirdly alienated because I wasn't an anguished mourner. Diana's death didn't make me happy but it didn't move me to come down to the palace and demand to see the queen weeping on the pavement either. Inadvertently, what the news was doing was driving a wedge between regular people and emotional, demonstrative, and some might say overly-reactive people, and ever since Diana's death it's been this second group that's had more influence over the news agenda"
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Watching this for the first time 12-or-so years after it originally aired, it's eerie how very relevant/prescient it still is, from coverage of riots (/the potential for riots/violence at mass demonstrations) to media coverage of vaccine skepticism to the build-them-up-to-knock-them-down-to-redemption-story-arc of celebrities/pseudo-celebrities/reality TV personalities/celebrity-adjacents to media coverage of mass shootings.
Also interesting to recognize some ideas/observations/critiques from Newswipe bleed into Black Mirror
And this, on the coverage of Diana:
"...the entire saga left me, and I suspect millions of other people like me, feeling weirdly alienated because I wasn't an anguished mourner. Diana's death didn't make me happy but it didn't move me to come down to the palace and demand to see the queen weeping on the pavement either. Inadvertently, what the news was doing was driving a wedge between regular people and emotional, demonstrative, and some might say overly-reactive people, and ever since Diana's death it's been this second group that's had more influence over the news agenda"