Strangely enough, it has appeared in the Middle East. While we here in America argue about copyrights and revenue streams, things run a little differently over there:

I took this photo just a few minutes ago, of Israel Channel 10’s news coverage of our little war. It shows Zvi Yehezkeli, who covers Arab affairs and has been giving excellent summaries of the Arab media (Noorster and I have a huge crush on him). Al Manar TV, Hezbollah television, is showing Zvi live while he is in the Tel Aviv studio. They are broadcasting our broadcast in real time, from Beirut, translating from Hebrew into Arabic what Zvi is saying, and responding in real time. “We can see you!” said the Al Manar moderator, mockingly, as he smiled into the camera.

Zvi is listening to the whole thing via his earphone, and he even posed a question in Arabic.

This is just one example of how mad and complex this conflict is: We watch each other’s television broadcasts, we talk to one another, and then...we bomb each other.

Now just imagine the post-modern real-time tv news reporting on tv news reporting we could do here in the world capital of blase cable tv news reporting. Picture this: MSNBC rebroadcasting Fox News live, with snarky MST-3k style commentary, while CNN comments on the commenting. We have indeed entered a brave new world.

Aren’t the terrorists worried about infringing Channel 10’s copyright? Oh wait, they probably don’t care. Just goes to show you that anyone who supports copyright reform is a terrorist. But we knew that all along (and besides, now we know why the NSA is tapping our phone calls).

Thanks Lisa for bringing us this little ”dialogasm."