Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id VAA09676 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:01:18 +0100 X-Originating-IP: [194.117.133.84] User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:52:33 +0100 Subject: Re: Media and Violence From: Steve Drew <srdrew_1@hotmail.com> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Message-ID: <B8EF6CBD.188%srdrew_1@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200204260225.DAA08285@alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2002 19:55:09.0970 (UTC) FILETIME=[455ECF20:01C1ED5C] Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:33:27 +0200
> From: "Kenneth Van Oost" <Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be>
> Subject: Re: Media and Violence
>
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk>
> To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:10 PM
> Subject: RE: Media and Violence
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> An addition on the media and violence thread,
>
> Now that Le Pen won the pre- selection for the French presidency the
> media is to blame, so it seems.
>
> The comments expressed the assumption that if the media did not made
> the pre- selection into an exercise between Chirac and Jospin, Le Pen
> would not have won. For the media the obvious race was between the
> present president Chirac and his PM Jospin. Noone counted in Le Pen.
>
> There are a lot of reasons which contradict this ( the good weather,
> everybody thought the same as the media did, etc....).
> Can we say the media is to blame or is this another urban legend of
> some kind !?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kenneth
There is a lot to blame besides the media.
According to the New York Times Op-Ed columns one factor is one that all the
western democracies could face. Given the situation in France of the big two
parties, the French public chose the 1st round ballot to stick two fingers
up at them by voting for smaller 'no hoper' groups and parties.
Unfortunately there was more choice on the left so the votes were thinned
out, whilst in the right there were only two, so Le Pen benefited. Add in
the stay at homes, and wallop neo Nazi is through by a whisker.
A second point is the lack of real choice voters face every where. Grey men
in grey suits with policies to match have all seemed to blur, a bit like the
end of Orwell's 'Animal Farm' which produces the ever lower turnouts.
And possibly the escalation of the Anti Globalism?
Regards
Steve
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