The most gripping, intoxicating drama on TV right now is the revolution.
Yes, the general revolution, not just the events in the Arab world. Thing is, watching TV you get to see and feel how everything might fit together, loosely and unfiltered. What television news does is illuminate the principle of the instability of meaning. When events are fluid, attunement to everything is necessary. What is bewildering is bewitching because television allows us to derive our own meaningful iconography from the images and events. The shape of the meaning shifts endlessly.
Thousands of singing and dancing protesters streamed back into Manama's central Pearl Square Saturday after Bahrain's leaders withdrew tanks and riot police following two straight days of a bloody crackdown by security forces in the tiny monarchy.
The royal family, which was quick to use force earlier this week against demonstrators in the landmark square that has been the heart of the anti-government demonstrations, appeared to back away from further confrontation following international pressure from the West.
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