Just Ignore Them

from Filter Bubble (deluxe) by Mat Ward

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Inspired by the work of award-winning media analysts Media Lens, whose challenges to journalists used to elicit responses. Journalists have since learnt it's safer, and no doubt less time-consuming, to ignore them. The quotes are taken from Media Lens tweets and an interview they did:
Why has @BBCNews betrayed its own rules of impartiality?
twitter.com/medialens/status/866677331934552064
Perhaps the @BBCNews Foreign Editor might like to respond, please?
twitter.com/medialens/status/866675981825830912
Corporate journalists know that their propaganda promoting perpetual war and corporate control of politics cannot withstand rational challenge; they have learned that they lose less credibility by ignoring us, for example, than by engaging.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/the-distortions-of-the-corporate-media-an-interview-with-media-lens
The phone notification sound half way through the track is an attempt to put the listener in the journalists' shoes: experiencing the cognitive dissonance of hearing a notification, but ignoring it.
Here's an interview I did with Media Lens:
www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/06/how-an-activist-fathered-a-media-critic/

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Why has BBC News betrayed its own rules of impartiality?
Perhaps the BBC News Foreign Editor might like to respond, please?
Just ignore, ignore them
Just ignore, ignore them
We don't answer to you
Just ignore, ignore them
Just ignore, ignore them
We don't answer to you
Corporate journalists know that their propaganda promoting perpetual war and corporate control of politics cannot withstand rational challenge; they have learned that they lose less credibility by ignoring us

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from Filter Bubble (deluxe), released January 24, 2020

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Mat Ward blends future bass, drum and bass, punk and politics to come up with a different sound. He has released albums about financial markets, Apple, Elon Musk, surveillance, the media, Mars, protest chants and the climate. He also writes books and a music column that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Al Jourgensen. ... more

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