roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

roundtable: Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Re: Content is the cargo of truth

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Mon, 27 Mar 1995 05:01:32 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 05:01:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: Content is the cargo of truth
In-Reply-To: <199503232215.OAA19543@video.hidden.videomaker.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950327044511.18855B-100000@access1.digex.net>


On Sun, 26 Mar 1995, Matt York wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 22 Mar 1995, Matt York wrote:
> >> 
> >> Lastly I did not mean to say: "do it my way or you're a pinko.", but 
> >> rather "my way works also, don't be affraid of profit."
> >
> 
> On Thur, 23 Mar 1995 Victor wrote:
> >  That is almost exactly what you did say as anyone who can read will see,
> >and the idea that greed will be the preferred fountain of "public goods"
> >in the electronic media is something only a TV executive could possible
> >utter.  The television model of communications has had a murderous record
> >in promoting the "culture of aggrssion during of our times, which no sane
> >individual would desire to reproduce in cyberspace.  Your attempt to link 
> >a more progressive infrastructure design with hateful code words cannot 
> >change this situation.
> 
> 
> No doubt that "The television model of communications has had a 
> murderous record in promoting the culture of aggression". I think that's 
> the fault of the model not the medium.

  Your response makes a game of words.  The television model is 
comprised of the medium, in case you had not noticed, and it is that 
medium following the profit motive that has produced a muderous product.  


> What I do "desire to reproduce in cyberspace" is the print model of 
> communications using the video medium.

  More word games.  The print model does not include the video medium, 
which has numerous differences from the print medium, in case you had 
not noticed, onbe of which is exclusive licenses to utilize discrete 
channels of broadcasting.  If you like the print model why don't you 
publish a book?  


>    Most book publishers charge a 
> fee and make a profit and it seems to have been working well for 
> several centuries.
   

  That's debatable.  If we could compare the garbage that is published, 
including the garbage published in books, newspapers, and periodicals, 
with the important information that has been denied publication because 
of the danger to the propaganda ssystem, we might see a more truthful 
story.  Profit pressures distort the information that is conveyed in 
every medium that is used, some worse than others, due to limited 
competition.  The worst of these is video.


> The hateful code words that you mention are either a hallucination or a
> misinterpretation of my messages.

  There was no mistaking the hateful intent of your words.  Rather than 
offer an apology for your wrongful conduct you continue to present 
misrepresentations, the very kind I suggest, you are likely to present 
in your video messages.

  Vigdor Schreibman
  <fins@access.digex.net>

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