"Burroughs, William S. - The Electronic Revolution" - читать интересную книгу автора (Burroughs William S)

President Johnson burst into a swank apartment, held three girls at
gunpoint, 26 miles north of Saigon yesterday.

you can cut the mutter line of the mass media and put the altered mutter
line out in the streets with a tape recorder. Consider the mutter line of the
daily press. It goes up with the morning papers, millions of people read the
same words. In different ways, of course. A motion praising Mr. Callaghan's
action in banning the South African Cricket Tour has spoiled the colonel's
breakfast. All reacting one way or another to the paper world or unseen
events which becomes an integral part of your reality. You will notice that
this process is continually subject to random juxtapostation. Just what sign
did you see in the Green Park station as you glanced up from the PEOPLE?
Just who called as you were reading your letter in the TIMES? What were you
reading when your wife broke a dish in the kitchen? An unreal paper world
and yet completely real because it is actually happening. Mutter line of
the EVENING NEWS, TV. Fix yourself on millions of people all watching Jesse
James or the Virginian at the same time. International mutter line of the
weekly news magazine always dated a week ahead. Have you noticed it's the
kiss of death to be on the front cover of TIME. Madam Nhu was there when her
husband was killed and her government fell. Verwoerd was on the front cover
of TIME when a demon tapeworm gave the order for his death through a
messenger of the same. Read the Bible, kept to himself, no bad habits,
you know the type. Old reliable, read all about it.

So stir in news stories, TV plays, stock market quotations, adverts and put
the altered mutter line out in the streets.

The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing
power and more sophisticated technique used by establishment mass media to
falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a PRIORI
ridiculous or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books,
discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest.

I suggest that the underground press could perform this function much more
effectively by the use of cut/up techniques. For example, prepare cut/ups of
the ugliest reactionary statements you can find and surround them with the
ugliest pictures. Now give it the drool, slobber, animal noise treatment and
put it out on the mutter line with recorders. Run a scramble page in every
issue of a transcribed tape recorded cut/up of news, radio and TV. Put the
recordings out on the mutter line before the paper hits the stand. It gives
you a funny feeling to see a headline that's been going round and round
inside your head. The underground press could add a mutter line to their
adverts and provide a unique advertising service. Cut the product in with
pop tunes, cut the product in with advertising slogans and jingles of other
products and syphon off the sales. Anybody that doubts that these techniques
work has only to put them to the test. The techniques here described are in
use by the CIA and agents of other countries ...Ten years ago they were
making systematic street recordings in every district of Paris. I recall the
Voice of America man in Tangir and a room full of tape recorders and you
could hear some strange sounds through the wall. Kept to himself, hello in