‽istis reclaims the news from before… (weekending March 27th
2021)
This week ‽istis wonders what on earth was being
reported in previous this weekendings… and ponders some internet search results across
the past few years:
‽ Democrats Pivot Hard to Health Care
After Trump Moves to Strike Down Affordable Care Act (2019) [i]
‽ Learning languages: Why bilingual
kids are smarter (2018)[ii]
‽ Russian opposition leader Alexei
Navalny jailed after protests (2017)[iii]
‽ Descendants of the Sun: the Korean
military romance sweeping Asia (2016)[iv]
‽ Vladimir Putin’s formative German
years (2015)[v]
‽ Councils
in England are using public health budgets to fund other services (2014)[vi]
‽ The
astonishing speed of Chinese censorship (2013)[vii]
‽ Egypt
elections: On a mission to rebuild Egypt (2012)[viii]
‽ New
protests flare in Syria towns (2011)[ix]
‽ Israeli
tanks ‘advance into Gaza’ (2010)[x]
‽ UN
urges Sudanese rethink on aid (2009)[xi]
‽ Colombia
blames rebels for raids (2008)[xii]
‽ UN
eyes Kosovo independence (2007)[xiii]
‽ …and
back and back and back…
But, perhaps giving greater food for thought, ‽istis is led to ponder:
·
what is reported
·
processes of iteration
·
what is recorded
·
what is filtered, edited in or edited out
·
what is presented
·
whether there can ever be ‘the news’ or always just ‘some news’
·
the power of search engines and the power of those who own and manage
the search engines (see Maplandia cited here, for example and the BBC news
archives that are linked)
·
accessibility, paywalls, cookies, advertising and subscriptions
·
the potential limits of digital storage and future readership
·
what becomes tomorrows' fish and chip wrappings and what sticks in any collective
consciousness
·
what might be missed now and under-reported or unreported 'DC' (During
Covid)
·
what ‘lessons of history’ might be learned lest we are doomed to repeat
them - and whose histories are perhaps never written and never learned from
·
whether there is anything new under the sun
…and how much a sense of ‘it was as it was’ then, might
explain a sense of ‘it is what it is’ now and a sense as to whether - just perhaps,
possibly, maybe – things could be different?
©
Pistis
NB: further reflections and comments linked to this week’s theme and
past blog
entries to be found on Twitter: replies, retweets (which don’t necessarily
indicate approval, sometimes the very opposite!) and ‘likes’:
@Pistis_wonders
[ii] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/learning-languages-why-bilingual-kids-are-smarter-1.3433840
[iii] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/27/russian-opposition-leader-alexei-navalny-at-court-following-arrest
