Background Noise

Mairead Byrne's Bagdad piece stood out to me the most last week. It was a continuos trance of the turbulent times in the middle east as reported by our news sources. More specifically however, I related it to being almost like background noise. As if it was CNN being on in another room reporting on the latest bombing, attack or distress in Bagdad. From afar and every so often you would here these keywords of war, as Byrne's Piece seemed to echo, in a more concentrated form. Maybe it would be interesting to combing her exact words to sound bytes of the exact phrases as reported in the news.