Television's privileged, clinical mediation hides its own loss — the flattered viewer who cannot see what the screen…
echoes
From: DFW on Roger Federer — NPR Weekend Edition Saturday (August 19, 2006)
- Early text:
[scene] Wallace's defense of the video-porn comparison:
televised tennis, with slow-mo and multiple angles, gives a more clinical
perspective and makes the viewer feel so privileged that the loss goes
unnoticed; what is subtracted is the sensuous physicality, mainly the
speed of the ball [00:37–01:19]
- IJ echo: E Unibus Pluram's account of TV as a medium that flatters the
watcher while restructuring what watching is
(e-unibus-pluram); the Entertainment territory
only at the level of shared preoccupation, not mechanics
- Weight: shared-preoccupation