The writer Richard Webster, who has previously exposed the hysteria and false accusations generated by the Bryn Estyn children's home investigations (and who this year became one of the first to establish Jersey's celebrated skull fragment was of vegetable origin), thinks the uncritical reporting demonstrates, rather, 'the insatiable human appetite for narratives of evil'.
The post-Flash Crash narrative became one of "evil" trading platforms, and there were cries to bring back circuit breakers (which many trading destinations did).
In general, radical right pundits can make patently false assertions, or offer up fantastical narratives of liberal evil, and count on suckering the credulous infotainers who populate corporate journalism into giving these dissembling spinmeisters a forum, doing no investigation, and asking no hard questions.
And the civil rights movement's "Year of Birmingham" passed into history as an epic narrative of good versus evil.
The building blocks of his argument were a mishmash of decontextualized thoughts reassembled to form a simplistic narrative of good and evil, heroes and strawmen.
It was all right because that is, in effect, what we do almost every day in gaudy sports arenas and stadiums — suppress the specter of an uncertain, scary and frustrating world to manufacture a pretend narrative of good versus evil.
But beyond that broad narrative of good v evil, the trailer does not give too much away.
But this cynical approach creates a general campaign narrative of good versus evil.
Yet, the United States seems to be now capitalizing as well on the same kind of dichotomous narrative of good and evil towards the Iranian government that will only perpetuate an impasse.
