Protect Us From Another Celebrity Death and Network Management
The world is reeling from political upheaval, economic meltdown and environmental catastrophe.
What does the national media focus on for two weeks? The high drama of a controversial musical artist who has the audacity of dying. News that effects each and every person on this planet is buried under hype and circumstance.
People are starving, people are being caught up in conflicts beyond their control. People are trying to adapt to a more environmental and economical lifestyle. Celebrity nonsense is the stuff of blogs and checkout rags, not the national media that employs “high quality” journalists. Unemployed journalists are a dime a dozen right now. The choice to focus national media on celebrity hype is network management.
SHAME ON YOU!
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July 7th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Escape from the drudgery of any social depression – look at the great depression and how people escaped –
Throughout most of the Depression, Americans went assiduously, devotedly, almost compulsively, to the movies…the movies offered a chance to escape the cold, the heat, and loneliness; they brought strangers together, rubbing elbows in the dark of movie palaces and fleapits, sharing in the one social event available to everyone.”
–Carlos Stevens
From the Crash to the Fair
The Public Theatre, 1979
July 8th, 2009 at 1:40 am
Smoke and Mirrors BossKitty
http://my.opera.com/meier-mattern/blog/how-the-world-works?cid=9400000#comment9400000
http://oldephartte.livejournal.com/3317.html
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/water-and-resources-political-engines.html