tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12661191.post7857929123629804950..comments2023-11-02T06:32:16.443-05:00Comments on It's Just A Blog: The Beating Death of an InnocentWestyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11349549360672400647noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12661191.post-41254835917868276122009-09-30T08:56:07.074-05:002009-09-30T08:56:07.074-05:00The sadness of the story aside, it's an intere...The sadness of the story aside, it's an interesting case study on the way news floats or sinks in the ocean of information. It reminds me that although the future was have greater democratic input into relevance, right now the tradition journalism agencies still have more control, and their input is advertising-driven which somehow causes them to choose sensationalism.<br /><br />But this interesting part is the "grasp for recontexualization" that occurs... the story isn't interesting on its own, but place it next to the olympic bid story, and the juxtaposition upgrades the story. Do they actually have relevance to each other? Not much, I'd think. But the pattern arrangement creates relevance. <br /><br />Since I've been thinking about pattern recognition and recontextualization a lot, this is an interesting example of a suggested pattern that an audience might accept uncritically.chris ridgewayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09997092928804153066noreply@blogger.com