A standard news report.

This video about sums it up. It’s a formula for keeping us occupied while we might be (or might not be) hearing real news:

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in Maplewood with his wife Beverly.

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    Dan Klarmann January 29, 2010 Reply

    When I find myself watching broadcast news,

    then I find myself wondering what the subject really is, as often as not. Insert a few key words in this video, and it is most stories.

    Very clever.

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    Rachel Locke January 30, 2010 Reply

    Ditto on the Brilliant!

    The "lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a lazerbeam" is still cracking me up. (hmmm… its giving me ideas for good teaching tools.)

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