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KhanFusionKhanFusion
edited March 2007 in General
Let us discuss mass-media saturations!

O.J!
Kobe!
Scott and Lacy Peterson!
The Ramseys!
Elizabeth Smart!
That Blonde College Girl That Disappeared in the Carribean Somewhere!
Brittany Spears!
Anna Nicole!

Distractions?


Discuss!

Comments

  • Professor MacJakeProfessor MacJake
    edited March 2007
    http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/26/gibson-iraq-media/

    It's one thing to have a bunch of meaningless shit paraded out in order to distract us from soul crushing failure.

    It's another thing to openly acknowledge it.
    GIBSON: Now I submit to you that that is a real, honest-to-God drama. Now it may not fit the high-minded views of a lot of news professionals, people who think that their news program is just another part of Foreign Affairs Quarterly. That only a certain kind of news is worthy of their discussing. Those people are snobs. They’re people who, when they see a story, go, “Ew, icky. I don’t want to do that.” I did this for years. I’ve been doing a long time. I’ve approached many stories and said, “That story isn’t worth our trouble.” It has always been a mistake. Always. Every single time I did it. So when I see people like this guy —

    [CLIP ANDERSON COOPER] There’s a war on, there’s a war on, there’s a war on.

    GIBSON: Oh, there’s a war on, there’s a war on. Maybe, just maybe, people are a little weary, Mr. Cooper, of your war coverage, and they’d like a little something else. Maybe that’s why they all thundered to this story.

    [CLIP ANDERSON COOPER] There’s a war on, there’s a war on, there’s a war on.

    GIBSON: My complaint about this is what you’re listening to when you hear that guy lecture the audience, is you’re listening to news-guy snobbery. Essentially saying, “I’m better than you. I know what you want to hear about, but I’m better than that story. I’m too high class for that story. I won’t stoop to what you want to hear about.”

    I’m not playing that. People want to hear about the Anna Nicole story, I’m happy to tell them.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    Random point of interest-- I believe the news items in Khan's post were arranged in order of increasing blondeness.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited March 2007
    Does Britney count as a blonde when she's a skinhead?
  • FangédFaerieFangédFaerie
    edited March 2007
    You're back! And yes, she does. She's less blonde than before, though. I mean, she's not partying with Paris Hilton anymore.
  • stefstef
    edited March 2007
    I don't know-- when she's not sporting the baldness, she goes around in a platinum blonde wig.

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