Here’s just one example of how mass media craps in your brain – an article in The Inquirer about Dell laptop explosion. I picked this one as it is number one in Bloglines’ Top Links for June 21, 2006.
Read it. You’ll notice a whole bunch of crap that was intended for your brain. Need any hints? Here are a few:
- “Dell laptop” (why on earth the brand of the laptop is important in this single case?)
- “exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident” (I’m sorry… deadly?)
- “his advice is …stay away, away, away” (
StupidSilly… Unplug the damn thing! Or cut the power in the room. It’s all about electricity.) - “For the record, this is a Dell machine” (for which record? And why are you so sure and concerned about it anyway?)
- “It is only a matter of time until such an incident breaks out on a plane” (Oh, p’lease! It’s just a laptop. Even if something like this will ever happen on the plane, a trained stuard will take of the fire with fire extinguisher. You don’t have to scary everyone just yet.)
There’s more.
Either it’s all is a joke, or I don’t get it. Damn! I don’t get it even if it’s a joke…