In the strange temporality of the media-world, great sea-changes in human consciousness, abrupt shifts in the Zeitgeist and epoch-inaugurating actions and speeches happen with alarming regularity, or can be telescoped through the lens of a few prepackaged headlines, before being inexplicably dispatched to oblivion by the ‘next big thing’.Meanwhile, one can only hope that the rage against injustice and the silent weaving of hope persists, ineluctably, beneath the noise of the news.
Often, the appropriate task is to insist that the news is not new. Nothing is being inaugurated, nothing has shifted, no great issue has suddenly been localised and brought to light. Instead, look, this is the same thing as before with its spoonbait of novelty. Instead also, look over here in this other media-neglected place where something really is being localised and brought to light. The Zeitgeist is not in the pocket of Rupert Murdoch or Endemol.
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