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184 views · Published 13 March 2017 · 2:04 · Indexed 15 October 2026

Channel: Robert Tidwell · 2017 · Entertainment

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A video collage of 24 clips of cable news represents the 24 hour news cycle. It insists on obsessiveness and anxiety. In our current political climate, everything is a controversy and a threat and we are given to believe that at any moment the constant stream of talking heads will provide us with answers, but as we feed the beast and our obsession grows, information is lost. The droning of the cable news networks, right, left, and conspiratorial, almost become white noise and indistinguishable. There is nothing to learn.
After deciding to disconnect from cable news, the world is filled with far less anxiety. There is beauty, wonder, sensuality, intimacy, spirituality, and compassion represented by various images mixed into each other which leave the viewer feeling detached from the chaos. A mantra loops on the audio channel which represents a new kind of anxiety, a fear that we are too disconnected as “What are they saying?” runs through our minds as we struggle to translate the Russian words.
All videos are appropriated. The first half come from MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and other news sources, while the second half were taken from users thesickrose, marie bee, chrissyregler, and chaneleywelly on hitrecord.org. The audio loop features a friend of mine reading a tweet by Donald Trump in Russian. 


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