Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck's War Room seems to perfectly exemplify premediatory logic. In fact, the show begins with a warning that Beck is not providing "predictions of what will happen, but what could happen." Even though Beck assures us that he's "not doing this show to scare [us]," the hypermediated environment is awash in explosions, natural disasters, and other apocalyptic imagery clearly designed to modulate affect rather than provide information. (Incidentally, this new media landscape is brilliantly satirized in Stephen Colbert's Doom Bunker).