About newspapers - Discussion about the yellow press on the ZX Spectrum.

11 October 2000

                                          
            
                
                
                
                
 Discussion about the yellow press.
                                          
(C) Jason Krueger/DT^FDM                                        
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(m) Midisoft/EM^FDM                                             
 "Any craft disgusts me. 
                       Peasants, owners and pa6othuku are an abomination.
                       A hand with a pen is no better than a hand on a plow. Which
                       handy era! I'll never hit         
                       hand to yourself. And then, to be tame - this can
                       take it far."                         
                                                                
                                   Arthur Pem6o,"One Summer in Hell"
                                                       
  in most cases the phrase "yellow

press" is pronounced and perceived using exclusively with a negative connotation. In definition To a certain extent, such an understanding is justified. No, perhaps not even justified, but it explains IMO - explainable by corporate predis- journalists' squabbles and the myth of "honest" press. However, like any problem, the problem "yellow" newspapers and magazines has more than one possibility of approach and interpretation. And therefore, it seems to me, the time has come look at it from the other side. However, knowing about playfulness and endless love for banter from many representatives of the late modern turf and postmodern, there is no doubt that someone has already composed something similar. However, for the reason that the author is not familiar personally with such creations, to him (i.e. to me) you have to strain your imagination and pour out your ideas in a file that you have happiness read. First, let's get starteddebunking the myth about “honest” journalists. Any individual you would be abstractly familiar with such a very entertaining shit like phenomenology perception, will confirm to you that the sound itself the use of words carries a subtext, a certain structure, often having nothing in common with lexical meaning of the word. Those. state in words facts without revealing one’s relation- It is almost impossible to contact them. Again same: style is a person. Personal imprint The writer’s ty is inherent in the construction of phrases, sentences, in all syntactic con- structures. Which is important. Of course you can try to follow your style, however if you are writing a long enough piece, leading (material), then, controlling the shape each sentence, compose it productively you will continue to live until the end of time. In ob- Well, facts are one thing, but the text setting out the fact is completely different. On the prejudices of journalistic ethics there is nothing to say at all. They are prejudices and there are prejudices - by definition. This firstly.Secondly, by and large I don’t journalist (although in the filling procedure "yellowness" in the newspaper "Altai Week" participated - but solely for the sake of entertainment and as a private individual), and therefore I have there is no desire to understand the internal early affairs of the journalistic corporation. Now about the press itself. What's the use and what interest might there be in the presentation bare facts? Ultimately, what serves it has already happened, and repeating it being (at least in a textual version) doesn't make sense. In my opinion, much more It’s more interesting to create new incidents - at least based on the old ones. Fake details, far-fetched interpretations, subterfuges a scoop of facts and complete lies are of interest - no bare depiction. Here they appear at least the creative abilities of the author, his imagination, logic, ability to do stupid things side conclusions based on meaningless facts. Again metaphysically, the event stated in this way begins to pre- acquire multidimensionality: reflected in the cry- in the mirror of the text, it receives in the ontolo- gical, informational, virtual plane of existence of their counterparts, who are are already caused by other events. These doubles, if the reader will deign to accept the existential leaf terminology - these are incidents, which do not exist, but they exist. You, of course, will say: “After all, this is dishonorable.” but this is a deception of the reader." Well... Pick it up hand of those who believe what they say on the Levizor Mr.Dorenko. Hey you! Who are you? Lasoft? Then it’s clear... You can omit it. You see. General unanimity: everyone knows that Dorenko is lying. But what ratings! A who believes what is published in Moskov- Komsomolets"? Lasoft, why are you sitting there? Can't read? Well, okay. Again, eat- agree: "MK" is 32 pages of absolute a lot of nonsense. But it’s interesting! The "yellow" press also never is embarrassed to “put down” the opponent in the middle number of unsubstantiated statements. Facts - uninteresting activity. Some rulers of the human race may well claim to wear halos. Therefore, the search for fact- technical compromising information on the enemy - busy the process is long and often leads to nothing - It’s much more interesting (and more useful!) to write absolute lies about your enemies! This not only develops imagination and fantasy ziyu, but allows the author to concentrate not on the accuracy of the presentation of facts, but on the style listic and contextual components cabbage soup In this case, the material turns out much more interesting. At least if the journalist is not a graphomaniac per- character in the spirit of a “science fiction writer”, print- located in the optocoupler. Far-reaching ones are extremely useful analogies and interpretations. They allow draw a completely unthinkable conclusion from some phrase or action of the opponent (like Unbeliever did for- The conclusion is that TextMaker was created specifically but to fill the stage with newspapers and drown drink in this stream of his BornDead). Analo- gizing also allows you to pry other some of their opponents, which are discussed in In general, the material does not suit it. So, based on all of the above, we can conclude: the “yellow” press is is the only type of journalistic activity creativity, allowing you to free up creativity what strength, fantasy and imagination of the author. The press pretends to be “objective” not only is it boring (read ZX-Pilot, any phrase or action of the opponent (like Unbeliever did for- The conclusion is that TextMaker was created specifically but to fill the stage with newspapers and drown drink in this stream of his BornDead). Analo- gizing also allows you to pry other some of their opponents, which are discussed in In general, the material does not suit it. So, based on everythingthe above, we can conclude: the “yellow” press is is the only type of journalistic activity creativity, allowing you to free up creativity what strength, fantasy and imagination of the author. The press pretends to be “objective” not only is it boring (read ZX-Pilot, Optron...), but also hypocritical and deceitful. By definition. That's all. __________________________________________

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