Time & Perspective Quote by Daisy Berkowitz

Daisy Berkowitz nails the sleight of hand that keeps modern outrage media humming: condemnation as a delivery system for promotion. The line turns on a deliberately simple contradiction - “how horrible” versus “glorifying it” - that mirrors the viewer’s own split-screen experience. You’re invited to feel morally superior while being fed the same spectacle everyone else is consuming. That’s not hypocrisy by accident; it’s a business model.

The specific intent is diagnostic, not preachy. Berkowitz isn’t clutching pearls about tasteless TV; she’s pointing at the perverse incentive structure where attention is the real currency. Calling something “horrible” becomes a kind of packaging, a way to frame lurid content as public service: we’re not enjoying this, we’re “covering” it. The subtext is a critique of complicity that spreads beyond producers to audiences. If you keep watching the “top story,” you’re voting for it, even if you’re watching in disgust.

Contextually, it lands in a post-’90s landscape where tabloid TV and later cable news learned to weaponize emotional intensity - fear, disgust, shock - because those emotions stick. For a musician, especially one shaped by alternative culture’s suspicion of mainstream narratives, the observation doubles as a warning about branding: scandal isn’t the enemy of fame; it’s often the engine. The quote works because it exposes the trick without overexplaining it, letting the uncomfortable realization click into place: outrage is just another form of applause.