Comments on: Rage against the ATM machine http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/ Simon Mainwaring is a branding consultant, advertising creative director, blogger and speaker. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: admin http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-10 admin Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:05:05 +0000 http://simonmainwaring.com/?p=287#comment-10 Sadly it looked like the press. There were digital cameras and phones among the crush, but the elbow-wielders at the front were professionals in every sense. I guess we shouldn't be surprised but when citizen protest sells out, there's not much left that's honest or corrective. Love that quote, "We're all media". Thanks Sadly it looked like the press. There were digital cameras and phones among the crush, but the elbow-wielders at the front were professionals in every sense. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised but when citizen protest sells out, there’s not much left that’s honest or corrective.

Love that quote, “We’re all media”. Thanks

]]> By: admin http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-927 admin Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:05:00 +0000 http://simonmainwaring.com/?p=287#comment-927 Sadly it looked like the press. There were digital cameras and phones among the crush, but the elbow-wielders at the front were professionals in every sense. I guess we shouldn't be surprised but when citizen protest sells out, there's not much left that's honest or corrective. Love that quote, "We're all media". Thanks Sadly it looked like the press. There were digital cameras and phones among the crush, but the elbow-wielders at the front were professionals in every sense. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised but when citizen protest sells out, there’s not much left that’s honest or corrective.

Love that quote, “We’re all media”. Thanks

]]> By: Doug Schumacher http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Doug Schumacher Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:32:45 +0000 http://simonmainwaring.com/?p=287#comment-9 QUOTE: As for the protestor, he gives me the same feeling one gets - I imagine - when Paris Hilton turns and smiles to camera when making one of *those* videos. Shouldn’t you be more focused on the job at hand? Nice. This is interesting, but I'm not that familiar with what went down. But if corporate media was in any way playing the role of instigator here, it's a flagrant violation of one of the J-school principals of objectivity and observation. Of course, if it's citizen media, then nothing's really surprising, however depressing. And as Brian Morrissey recently said, "We're all media now". Good post. doug QUOTE:

As for the protestor, he gives me the same feeling one gets – I imagine – when Paris Hilton turns and smiles to camera when making one of *those* videos. Shouldn’t you be more focused on the job at hand?

Nice.

This is interesting, but I’m not that familiar with what went down. But if corporate media was in any way playing the role of instigator here, it’s a flagrant violation of one of the J-school principals of objectivity and observation.

Of course, if it’s citizen media, then nothing’s really surprising, however depressing. And as Brian Morrissey recently said, “We’re all media now”.

Good post.

doug

]]> By: Doug Schumacher http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-926 Doug Schumacher Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:32:00 +0000 http://simonmainwaring.com/?p=287#comment-926 QUOTE: As for the protestor, he gives me the same feeling one gets - I imagine - when Paris Hilton turns and smiles to camera when making one of *those* videos. Shouldn’t you be more focused on the job at hand? Nice. This is interesting, but I'm not that familiar with what went down. But if corporate media was in any way playing the role of instigator here, it's a flagrant violation of one of the J-school principals of objectivity and observation. Of course, if it's citizen media, then nothing's really surprising, however depressing. And as Brian Morrissey recently said, "We're all media now". Good post. doug QUOTE:

As for the protestor, he gives me the same feeling one gets – I imagine – when Paris Hilton turns and smiles to camera when making one of *those* videos. Shouldn’t you be more focused on the job at hand?

Nice.

This is interesting, but I’m not that familiar with what went down. But if corporate media was in any way playing the role of instigator here, it’s a flagrant violation of one of the J-school principals of objectivity and observation.

Of course, if it’s citizen media, then nothing’s really surprising, however depressing. And as Brian Morrissey recently said, “We’re all media now”.

Good post.

doug

]]> By: admin http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-6 admin Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:42:18 +0000 http://simonmainwaring.com/?p=287#comment-6 Thanks Dan. Yes, something felt sadly self-conscious and manipulative in the way the media behaved here. Not everything can or should be 'made for television'. The reality of people's suffering is overwhelmed by the immediacy of the reporting. Even the protestors were laughing as photographers egged them on. It felt like it was all for show. Sadly the media manages to put even real protest out of reach. Thanks Dan. Yes, something felt sadly self-conscious and manipulative in the way the media behaved here. Not everything can or should be ‘made for television’. The reality of people’s suffering is overwhelmed by the immediacy of the reporting. Even the protestors were laughing as photographers egged them on. It felt like it was all for show. Sadly the media manages to put even real protest out of reach.

]]> By: admin http://simonmainwaring.com/viral/rage-against-the-atm-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-925 admin Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:42:00 +0000 http://simonmainwaring.com/?p=287#comment-925 Thanks Dan. Yes, something felt sadly self-conscious and manipulative in the way the media behaved here. Not everything can or should be 'made for television'. The reality of people's suffering is overwhelmed by the immediacy of the reporting. Even the protestors were laughing as photographers egged them on. It felt like it was all for show. Sadly the media manages to put even real protest out of reach. Thanks Dan. Yes, something felt sadly self-conscious and manipulative in the way the media behaved here. Not everything can or should be ‘made for television’. The reality of people’s suffering is overwhelmed by the immediacy of the reporting. Even the protestors were laughing as photographers egged them on. It felt like it was all for show. Sadly the media manages to put even real protest out of reach.

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