Baudrillard and the news.

[interfused]

I’m currently reading baudrillard and am having difficulties in grasping what he sees as the role of the news media in todays society, any opinions or directions to relative websites greatly apreciated.

[someoneisatthedoor]

look here for a discussion of Baudrillard

[someemofag]

@Richard Vine

The system, by means of its all-powerful code— expressed especially through advertising, television, and the news media —steadily generates the arbitrary and controlling “models” from which all that we experience and do is derived; we are defined and coerced by endless, falsely “unique” replications…

This from an article entitled, “The “ecstasy” of Jean Baudrillard.”