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By Tim | May 1, 2010
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Maybe it is just me but increasingly through this election campaign there has been a growing sense of hollowness. Not so much in the candidates (!) but more in how particularly the press has treated the various opportunities for fun, judgement execution etc. and how news has spread.
Now obviously every election throws up all manner of juicy tidbits and bloopers, let alone the declamations of each and every policy. But this time around something keeps jarring.
Maybe it is the hysteria that has been unleashed towards the perils of a hung parliament (somewhat difficult to handle given the success that our European cousins have in jointly running some of their countries).
Maybe it is the harshness of the vitriol and satire that follows a ‘bigot’ gaffe, which funnily enough for some ended up turning them towards sympathy for Gordon Brown in his predicament.
Maybe it is the almost frightening ease and speed that news about anything can now travel at – the screenshot captured during the debate on Wednesday night achieved fame and follow-on postings (principally via Twitter) before the broadcast had even finished.
Maybe underlying the above point is that many of us are now so much more aware of the need to handle online communications with care – words can so easily appear to be screaming at us if not expressed in the right spirit.
I can’t help feeling that it is as though there’s a whole load of noise being promulgated as communication, and most communicators are completely missing the new environment of collaboration and shared hopes forcibly rising against the backdrop of economic doom and societal gloom.
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Topics: Communication, Politics | 1 Comment »
May 6th, 2010 at 9:34 pm
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