How the media frames the working class [Archive]

Anarchos

02-04-2008, 01:28 AM

Very good blurb, I thought. I would like to point out that media in the early - mid 1990s seemed to have been temporarily or, at the very least, was able to be taken over by the Gen-X crowd. In a way, they were able to expropriate the media. Music, movies and books, mostly. Though, inevitably, this was to be turned into capitalist culture.

But, there are reactions to this. There was Woodstock '99, where American youth rioted against corporate bull****. The rise of anti-corporate, post-modern bands. It was sort of the 60s rebooted and a bit more violent. Where it will lack, though, is the history books won't be written to denote the class struggle and the importance of class analysis and the anti-corporate culture that this movement denoted, but it will largely be noted as a bunch of rag-tag teenage dopers who turned into losers in the later 90s and at the turn of the century. This feeling was largely reflected from MTV, where the asswipes like Kurt Loader and the MTV execs portrayed and capitalized off this movement and generation.