The musician/performer Prince died. His fans care. The rest of us, maybe not so much.
But to some propaganda platform managers, this is more important than actual news, enough so to take up time that might be used for significant information to instead tell us, over and over, that his fans care, and wish he hadn't died, and to play snippets of Prince's music, again and again. There is "reporting" from impromptu tribute sites created by fans. Thus is 30 seconds of information stretched like Turkish taffy into many minutes, even hours, of "coverage."
U.S. government radio propaganda network NPR and British government global propaganda network BBC made it the top story. NPR even "called on a couple of Prince scholars" [sic] during the morning "news" program "Morning Edition" (April 22) to opine on their favorite Prince tunes. Who ever knew there were such a thing as "Prince scholars"? Not I. I figured there'd be aficionados, not "scholars." Silly me.
Live and learn!
But to some propaganda platform managers, this is more important than actual news, enough so to take up time that might be used for significant information to instead tell us, over and over, that his fans care, and wish he hadn't died, and to play snippets of Prince's music, again and again. There is "reporting" from impromptu tribute sites created by fans. Thus is 30 seconds of information stretched like Turkish taffy into many minutes, even hours, of "coverage."
U.S. government radio propaganda network NPR and British government global propaganda network BBC made it the top story. NPR even "called on a couple of Prince scholars" [sic] during the morning "news" program "Morning Edition" (April 22) to opine on their favorite Prince tunes. Who ever knew there were such a thing as "Prince scholars"? Not I. I figured there'd be aficionados, not "scholars." Silly me.
Live and learn!
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