Watching Election Television in the Age of Information, Misinformation and Disinformation | Tech Reddy

In 1948, he worked for Bell Labs and wrote a paper called “The Theory of Communication”. We’ve been calling the Digital Age the “Age of Information” for a long time now, which also includes the Age of Misinformation, the Age of Disinformation, and the Age of Misinformation, and the Age of Ignorance. – otherwise known as silence.

I thought about Shannon while watching five hours of election returns on Tuesday. I still don’t know the state of Herschel Walker’s Georgia, but I watched the whole show for so long that the numbers and the names and the different colored states on the electronic map started to make a breast stroke in my head.

Here in the real world, there is an upper limit to the amount of math that we normal people should be expected to take on. I say this not as an enemy of math or math, but as a young man who was shocked during school days to find out that my college math board score was only 50 points lower than my hard verbal boards. In fact, I may be one of the few people in the Western world who can speak well of Algebra. (All that symmetry, you know?)

But the distance between ignorance and the declaration of the absence of prophecy “Red Wave” – especially as “Red Ripple” broke MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow – it was large enough to allay almost all of the fears of the Democratic party.

Things could have been more convincing for the democrats, but things could have been worse for those who sat comfortably in the Blue circles with Blue friends on the Internet and turned off.

You know you live in a really strange world when Mike Wallace’s son Chris, now on CNN, calls it a “paradigm shift” when 34% of all voters deny the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election.

Add to this side of the “weird world” Ben Collins at MSNBC, who was introduced by Maddow as a news channel in “Disinformation and Extremism Beat.”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis may tell supporters in his victory speech that his state is where he “woke up from the dead,” but in Pennsylvania, another person whose campaign was derailed by a stroke may still beat the TV star who never lived. the government. (To make matters worse, Mehmet Oz’s longtime supporter Oprah Winfrey has admitted that she is not endorsing him for senator.)

I started the day watching Mika Brzezinski with tears in her right eye after her husband Joe Scarborough brought up Nancy Pelosi’s CNN interview with Anderson Cooper where she talked about her 82-year-old husband being hit with a hammer by an intruder. asking him “where is Nancy?” just like the real election-denying people who entered the Capitol on Jan.

When I came to Stephen Colbert last night during the CBS election, I was less excited about its politics than the importance of the report of the guest John Dickerson, who was not mathematical enough to tell us that the denial of the legitimacy of the 2020 election is like “poison pouring into the American system.”

That has been an unprecedented midterm election game, where one side cries out about the bankruptcy of our elections, and the other cries out for the bankruptcy of political honor and dignity.

Thank God for Dickerson’s speaking of well-known members of society, instead of new board notes for ambitious political classes.

Let me admit how much I regret the way journalism has handled the Trump Era.

I can’t praise CNN’s John King and NBC’s Steve Kornacki more highly for their handling of the numbers and electronic boards. And I’m not even going to discuss ALL of the many books on Trump, including the recent ones by Bob Woodward and Maggie Haberman of the Times, but I have to admit that the least bit of Trump journalism that seemed to delve into it was Frank Rich’s piece called “.The real Trump” that established Trump’s relationship with Roy Cohn of New York Magazine. on 30 April 2018.

I wish someone had written a big and deep magazine piece about the many Trumpian subjects that have happened to me over the past 10 years: his public life and grades at the Wharton business school, for example, and Mark Burnett’s successful creation of Trump’s business “genius” is famous as the basis of his TV show “The Student .” The number of people during his campaign for president who expressed the incredible intelligence of CBS honcho Les Moonves that the coverage of Trump’s blanket was not suitable for America, but “it was good for our ratings,” was another lesson that Frank Rich deserved. and thoroughness.

With a minority of the president’s supporters affected by the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections, he has been promising future announcements, while avoiding legal attention across the country.

Claude E. Shannon was certainly an important thinker of the world, the fraud we live in today.

But in 1985, Neil Postman wrote a definitive post-TV analysis of what was to become of our politics and our society at large.

The theme of the book was “We Laugh at Death.”