The Day There Was No News

by Scott Beale on May 13, 2008 · 12 comments

This just in…absolutely nothing. Imagine, if you will, a day without news.

Jason Arber created a thought provoking video of “The Day There Was No News”.

Adam Buxton created a similar “No News” video in early 2007.

Both of these videos do well to illustrate the old saying “no news, is good news”.

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1 John Moltz May 13, 2008 at 4:40 pm

This theme was covered in a Bloom County strip long, long ago. Back afore your fancy “Internets” with their “embedded video” and such.

(Not trying to ding the Onion, I well know that there are a finite number of funny things in the universe and two people can easily stumble up on the same idea. Heck, I really don’t even have a problem with them jacking it.)

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2 Josh Lowensohn May 13, 2008 at 5:08 pm

There was a play about this a few months back at the Berkeley Rep called Tragedy: A Tragedy. They managed to stretch this to 1.5 hours if you can believe it.

http://berkeleyrep.org/season/0708/2117.asp

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3 Stephen Lynch May 13, 2008 at 5:08 pm

I loved Bloom County. Why are all the women in this video blonde?

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4 qDot May 13, 2008 at 5:51 pm

I’m pretty sure this was originally a gag by Armando Iannucci, as part of the 2006 Time Trumpet Series on the BBC:

http://www.timetrumpet.co.uk/

Not that I can actually back that up with a clip URL, of course, but it’s a show worth pointing out nonetheless.

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5 D.S. Black May 13, 2008 at 8:57 pm

Too late to catch this play in its run at Berkeley Rep about the main news of the day being… the sun goes down…possibly for good (or worse).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0k4yC9_A0

Will Eno’s Tragedy: a tragedy is very much about something inchoate happening…or not!

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6 dormin May 14, 2008 at 3:48 am

A couple years back there was quite a bit of controversy in the Israeli art scene, when a well-known video artist (Doron Solomons) was accused of plagiarizing a work from his student (Tal Folkman). Both works also explore the ‘no news’ theme through edited silences.

The student’s work (dating back from 2003): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzK-Yx9AZzU

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