Lobbyists have finally arrived. Washington—or at least the Roll Call-reading classes that traffic in inside-the-Beltway inside baseball—is abuzz over K Street, the new quasi-reality series on influence-peddling produced by George Clooney and director Steven Soderbergh. All jittery cameras and quick cuts, the show glamorizes an unseemly and largely unseen side of our democracy. The lobbyists have a new motto: It’s… return to article
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Reader Comments (4)Page 1 of 1 pagesGreetings,
The quick cuts and jittery cameras really got going (did anyone notice) when the “won” war kept presenting new scenarios and casualties. There is meaning and cause in this: Subliminal Seduction is as old as popcorn images flashed on movie screens at less than 1/30th/sec., the threshold of human perception. Its very likely that all the jittery quick cuts have a purpose. Just turn out the lights and look around the room while one of these programs is on. The strobe like effect is telling. There are hidden messages therein, and they are all aimed at turning the population in consuming robots. Looking around, I’d say its working. There can’t be many who can really afford all these Lexus 4x4’s.
Where are they all coming from? Hypnotized consumtives carefully engineered.Orwell would not be surprised, nor would de Tocqueville.
Daigu
Posted by ryokan on Oct 4, 2003 at 1:15 AM Sounds a bit like Drop The Dead Donkey!
If you have not heard of this original idea of doing a show the week before it airs, it was about a TV news team, based in London and aired in the UK on Channel 4.
Posted by Derek Crolla on Oct 12, 2003 at 2:04 AM Love “K” Street - but since I am a fan of James Carville and a yellow dog democrat would be expected!!!
Thanks for the entertainment!!!!
Posted by bev on Oct 13, 2003 at 4:52 PM I recently saw the episode about the Plame leakgate scandle. Everyone was freaking out about hiring their own lawyers. It ended with someone quietly deleting emails. Great stuff. To bad I don’t have cable.
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