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A short film by British documentary maker Adam Curtis who is no stranger to examining social issues (and news media in particular) in a controversial way:

Everyone knows that television news can be boring, that’s because it’s often about politics which can be very dull…But these days there’s another problem with watching the news.  Night after night we are shown terrible things which we feel we can do nothing about.  Images of civil wars, massacres and starving children which leave us feeling helpless and depressed and to which the only response is: “Oh dear.”  There is a name for this. It’s called “oh-dearism” and this is the story of the rise of oh dearism in television news.

Tagged: Adam Curtis, Oh dearism