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theearth) wrote in saveyourselves2014-10-07 09:06 am
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[media digest] The media probably don't bite, but do you really want to check?
With the media starting to play a larger role, the purpose of this post is to be a digest and master post for everything that the media (newspapers, radio, TV, internet, etc) have said and will say. This post covers what gets aired/published about the numbered up until the 27th of October. This includes content created by both players and mods, regardless of if it stems from numbered and their allies, their opponents, or neutral third sources.
GUIDELINES
- You may either link to a post that you made which contained a media voice (like this) or or create small articles/opinion pieces/internet discussions/interviews/statements/etc and put them into the body of the comment, (like this).
- Please use this form:
- Please use the appropriate one of these threads (up to the 13th of October, 14th-20th,21st-27th) to link/post your media voices.
- If your media voice talks about a small group of reincarnates or one reincarnate in specific, please make sure that you have their players' permission to have the media talk about them in this way.
THE GENERAL CURRENT STATE OF THE MEDIA
- There is a clear divide between different localities now in how the media treat reincarnates. While in Locke, the environment has grown very hostile and barely any even neutral voice remains, the numbered efforts to help their image and the fact that Albero has little influence and interest there have done something on the national level, where positive, negative and neutral voices remain in a balance, though they become less realistic by the day. Fundraisers for all kinds of causes and recipients have been started. In Las Vegas, the public opinion on the numbered is the most clearly reflected in the media, which creates somewhat of a mood whiplash in it: After the snake battle, there was a heavy surge of negative commentary, but not long after it turns into positive demands: Talk of why the numbered are bad and dangerous turned into talk of how that potential could be utilized for good, and how they owe the numbered to do so. In Germany/Austria, the media are a bit shell-shocked by the strange superhero problem entering their countries, and are still more on an investigative level - sure, the Bild and Krone open with "TERROR OR SALVATION - WHAT IS THE TOWER" and similar insightful headlines, but the more upper-end media voices are all trying to not judge yet and only up their coverage of both local and international news of the numbered.
- On the internet and other places where information is traded, voices are varied and shrill. The cultists are suspiciously absent from everything, and the seedlings as a result are much quieter as well, so that negative voices seem to have become stronger. There is however a surge of non-American bloggers and news articles, forums and so on that deal with the numbered after the Orbital Tower showed up, and the non-Americans are to large parts seeing the numbered in a positive light, so the balance almost tips towards positive.
- The attempts of reincarnated persons to enter the discussion on their own terms is treated differently. Some welcome it, others not, but whenever it happens it is discussed thoroughly in the media afterwards.
- All local Locke newspapers and radio programs are filled with negative pieces on one numbered or some/all of them as a group almost daily, though the reader's comments section might contain neutral pieces. A local Locke radio station, Energy Up, fills its free broadcasting time with more or less fact-based pieces about the reincarnates, laced with gossip and speculations about their mental state and how dangerous they really are to the city; cunning minds will notice that those numbered that have openly opposed Albero are featured more frequently, and that only when speaking of them the station comments also on their families.
- Fox News continues its morning magazine programme about the numbered worldwide, though heavily focusing on America, with more or less fact-based pieces about the reincarnates, laced with gossip and speculations about their mental state and how dangerous they really are, though they also start to accuse the numbered of everything that they figure to be wrong with the nation at this point.
- All news outlets in Vegas run pieces about specific numbered, and not only about those that are high-profile in some shape or form, but about everyone. Their opinion on the reincarnates is ever-changing and might be high positive, highly negative or anywhere in between.
- Last post's digest: # 26/8: An interview with Las Vegas organization "Friends of the Shell" # 26/8: An interview with numbered Locke resident John Smith # 7/9: Nora and Emil trash some Vermedi # 26/8: Ye olde Loch Locke Monster is spotted # 2/9: The ice bucket challenge reaches the numbered
Former Media Posts: #1 #2
#3
GUIDELINES
- You may either link to a post that you made which contained a media voice (like this) or or create small articles/opinion pieces/internet discussions/interviews/statements/etc and put them into the body of the comment, (like this).
- Please use this form:
- Please use the appropriate one of these threads (up to the 13th of October, 14th-20th,21st-27th) to link/post your media voices.
- If your media voice talks about a small group of reincarnates or one reincarnate in specific, please make sure that you have their players' permission to have the media talk about them in this way.
THE GENERAL CURRENT STATE OF THE MEDIA
- There is a clear divide between different localities now in how the media treat reincarnates. While in Locke, the environment has grown very hostile and barely any even neutral voice remains, the numbered efforts to help their image and the fact that Albero has little influence and interest there have done something on the national level, where positive, negative and neutral voices remain in a balance, though they become less realistic by the day. Fundraisers for all kinds of causes and recipients have been started. In Las Vegas, the public opinion on the numbered is the most clearly reflected in the media, which creates somewhat of a mood whiplash in it: After the snake battle, there was a heavy surge of negative commentary, but not long after it turns into positive demands: Talk of why the numbered are bad and dangerous turned into talk of how that potential could be utilized for good, and how they owe the numbered to do so. In Germany/Austria, the media are a bit shell-shocked by the strange superhero problem entering their countries, and are still more on an investigative level - sure, the Bild and Krone open with "TERROR OR SALVATION - WHAT IS THE TOWER" and similar insightful headlines, but the more upper-end media voices are all trying to not judge yet and only up their coverage of both local and international news of the numbered.
- On the internet and other places where information is traded, voices are varied and shrill. The cultists are suspiciously absent from everything, and the seedlings as a result are much quieter as well, so that negative voices seem to have become stronger. There is however a surge of non-American bloggers and news articles, forums and so on that deal with the numbered after the Orbital Tower showed up, and the non-Americans are to large parts seeing the numbered in a positive light, so the balance almost tips towards positive.
- The attempts of reincarnated persons to enter the discussion on their own terms is treated differently. Some welcome it, others not, but whenever it happens it is discussed thoroughly in the media afterwards.
- All local Locke newspapers and radio programs are filled with negative pieces on one numbered or some/all of them as a group almost daily, though the reader's comments section might contain neutral pieces. A local Locke radio station, Energy Up, fills its free broadcasting time with more or less fact-based pieces about the reincarnates, laced with gossip and speculations about their mental state and how dangerous they really are to the city; cunning minds will notice that those numbered that have openly opposed Albero are featured more frequently, and that only when speaking of them the station comments also on their families.
- Fox News continues its morning magazine programme about the numbered worldwide, though heavily focusing on America, with more or less fact-based pieces about the reincarnates, laced with gossip and speculations about their mental state and how dangerous they really are, though they also start to accuse the numbered of everything that they figure to be wrong with the nation at this point.
- All news outlets in Vegas run pieces about specific numbered, and not only about those that are high-profile in some shape or form, but about everyone. Their opinion on the reincarnates is ever-changing and might be high positive, highly negative or anywhere in between.
- Last post's digest: # 26/8: An interview with Las Vegas organization "Friends of the Shell" # 26/8: An interview with numbered Locke resident John Smith # 7/9: Nora and Emil trash some Vermedi # 26/8: Ye olde Loch Locke Monster is spotted # 2/9: The ice bucket challenge reaches the numbered
Former Media Posts: #1 #2
#3
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Type of media/location if applicable: tumblr blog.
Link/Content: lockecitylost.tumblr.com is a blog run by Roxy off a fake email which archives submissions about those lost to mob violence in Locke City. Pictures, anecdotes, details of the events which lost them, and anything else is accepted. It's open to anyone, numbered or not, though Roxy does focus a bit on the Numbered because they're more recent.