In the continuing effort to prove the claim that while political communication in the public sphere is thriving with the Internet, it may be more the case that not unlike newspapers, Journalism as a profession is dead (all citizens must act as journalists). And as a prime deconstructive example The Colbert Report simply reports the awesome power of CNN to disinform global populations by institutionalizing state policies that may or may not be applicable to specific situations.
CNN asks if Ebola is 'the ISIS of biological agents' .
The current version of this is that one could in the tradition of socialist realism claim that the heroic efforts of the LEOs of Texas are resisting the Ebola outbreak as a Dallas deputy Sheriff may / may not have contracted the virus, where the subsequent death of the original patient is now ginning up the discourse of emergency disease prevention. This is of course reinforced by a
reactionary discourse resisting the need to vaccinate large populations, reinforced by media figures.
We don't need to go further than to see that same socialist realism at work in the use of the local state apparatus to deter all incursions human or viral which to some are the same contagion (see the journalistic use of the concept of "tipping point").
Borders must be defended, even if we have to use French helicopters and wearing glasses might make us forget some folks have trouble counting to three.
There are of course a more classic version of such televisual socialist realism in the films of Ken Burns especially in the way that even the idiocy of George Will can add gravitas to the history of the Roosevelts. However, our regular diet is still the television 24/7 365 cable news cycle and that ISIS can, by distributing videos of executions, serve its national intentions by giving us perhaps the grimmest versions of a contagious televisual socialist realism.