Thursday, July 02, 2009

Cultural Media Isolation

Among others, Sam Stein from the Huffing Post has pointed out that Fox News Channel has now twice been found mislabeling Republican politicians as Democrats durring a national election. The more recent example coming from their coverage of SC Governor Mark Sanford's trysts. The final lines of Stien's short post reads: "There is, of course, a small danger to these quick journalistic missteps. They get repeated. Look, for instance at this Google News finding for 'Mark Foley, D-Florida.'"

Though it may seem anti-intuitive at first I have a sense that our current networked communication technologies are able to isolate individuals and perhaps groups of people from good information.

A market saturated with a pervasive Cultural Media - that can be targeted to individuals - can be tailored to mislead specific individuals and thus exert cultural influence.