The Good News by Jacques Dauphin
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Tuesday December 26, 2006 11:36
by François Beaune - Louche Publishings
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Irish Museum of Modern Art, Military road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
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Jacques Dauphin turns news into good news
The Good news or how to aprehend corporate media’s distorsions and lies
“Reading tabloids at work put me in such a state of distress I had to do something about it. So I took my scissors, rearranged the images and rewrote the issues so at least I could get a laugh out of them.” That’s how Jacques Dauphin decided to turn corporate media’s brain-washing newspapers into ridicule.
Tabloids are part of english and irish life, a complement and justification to the millions of CCTVs now hanging at every street corner. Fearful tragedies fuelled with drugs and poverty seem complementary with a fascination for the rich, powerful and famous.
In a humorous way, Jacques Dauphin denounces the state of alienation tabloid readers are kept in by pushing irrelevance and unprecedented rumors even further than tabloids dare to.
Jacques Dauphin’s Good news are strictly copyleft, can be sent on the internet without permission and printed as long as people ask him at: jacques.dauphin@gmail.com
The Good news or how to aprehend corporate media’s distorsions and lies
“Reading tabloids at work put me in such a state of distress I had to do something about it. So I took my scissors, rearranged the images and rewrote the issues so at least I could get a laugh out of them.” That’s how Jacques Dauphin decided to turn corporate media’s brain-washing newspapers into ridicule. Every mondays and thursdays, he sends a powerpoint document made of cuttings of newspapers to everyone interested (see attached examples).
Tabloids are part of english and irish life, a complement and justification to the millions of CCTVs now hanging at every street corner. Fearful tragedies fuelled with drugs and poverty seem complementary with a fascination for the rich, powerful and famous.
In a humorous way, Jacques Dauphin denounces the state of alienation tabloid readers are kept in by pushing irrelevance and unprecedented rumors even further than tabloids dare to.
Jacques Dauphin’s Good news are strictly copyleft, can be sent on the internet without permission and printed as long as people ask him at: jacques.dauphin@gmail.com
François Beaune
responsable de la rédaction
Les éditions Louche
14 Montée Allouche
69001 Lyon
France
