Do any journalists ask any of the members of the Supreme
Court of the United States
to elaborate on their partisan decisions?
Do any of the media stars covering SCOTUS do anything but rewrite news
releases from the Courts' spokesman?
What happened when Bradley Manning went to the New York Times and the Washington Post and offered them evidence that the USA was cutting corners with regard to being "the good guys" team in both the Invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan?
If media stars believe that "ya got to go along to get
along," and live that lifestyle, how will citizen journalists manage to
outmaneuver the pros who have immediate access to all the news makers?
The possibility of fun, fame, and fortune are given as the motivating factors for inspiring altruistic efforts for providing a viable alternative to the work of media stars. The Internets stars are the people who have a gigantic amount of publicity thanks to their association with major media companies. Newcomers who "don't play ball" will be trashed as conspiracy theory lunatics if they dare to offer some new points of view. So scratch fame off the list. The media that get unquestioned obedience from their stars aren't going to hire a rookie and hope that they aren't "high maintenance employees," so scratch that off the list. That leaves only fun.
Anyone who is not of Irish heritage will never understand
how or why a columnist would get any fun out of naming JEB Bush the Republican
frontrunner in March of 2013. Media
stars won't "second the motion" because they are expected to build suspense and
expectations for the contest that will be decided by the unverifiable results
produced by "unhackable" electronic voting machines.
If, for example, if some ads on some buses in San Francisco spawn a lively debate about freedom of speech over the meaning of the word "jihad," and if a columnist is the first to bring that dispute to his audience's attention, then the Managing Editor (ME) might be disposed to be tolerant of other more frivolous items.
In an era when the staffs at various media have been reduced
greatly because of austerity budgets, a citizen columnist might (just might
mind you) manage to be the first to bring this to the attention of readers
outside the Bay Area.
If the San Francisco street car company starts in March to use a trolly car from Brighton England that has a top that folds away like a convertible car's top does, at a time when the rest of the USA is struggling with an excess of snow, that might catch the attention of readers who are tired of shoveling the snow off their sidewalks, and it just might catch the attention of the assignment editors for other websites (such as Jalopnik or the Huffington Post?), but the bottom line is that at best it will provide a columnist with an example of a unique attraction in a city that is rife with items to amuse and entertain tourists.
If the CBS Evening News staff wants to drop a subtle hint
that Global Warming might be a valid concept, they could run some video of the
tourists on that street car enjoying summer weather in March but if Fox doesn't
want to acknowledge that the "scientists" are on to something, they will just
ignore the feature story potential for the vehicle that Brits might call a
drophead trolley car.
Radio talk show host Randi Rhodes thought that Pope Frank looks like a dead ringer for her mentor Neil Rogers. We concur. On Thursday March 14, 2013, she played a bleep filled explanation by George Carlin of the current political stalemate.
Is there an audience for unique insights? Why did two conservative Bay Area talk show
hosts find the preemptive prison sentence for a thought crime by the cannibal
cop caused them some horripulation (goose bumps) but the Invasion of Iraq has
not yet caused them any retroactive regrets?
Is Double think regarding crimethink, an example of an oxymoron?
Conservative media stars can't admit that Dubya's belligerent foreign policy was questionable and the liberal talk show folks can't criticize the cannibal cop's conviction because they don't want to sound like they are sympathetic to the efforts of a Hannibal Lector wannabe. So neither group will be permitted to see any basis for a comparison and it will be up to a rogue columnist to point out the similarities. Dubya did not commit crimethink; the cop did.
The Invasion of Iraq was OK because Dubya thought they had
WMD's, but the cannibal cop gets convicted of a crime he obviously intended to
commit and that wasn't OK. Did any
pundit call the cannibal cop's offense an example of "crimethink"?
George Orwell, in "1984," wrote: "Even to understand the word "doublethink' involved the use of doublethink."
Now the disk jockey will play John Wayne singing "Wild Colonial Boy" (from the "Quiet Man"), Mick Jagger singing "Wild Colonial Boy" (from "Ned Kelley"), the Pogue's (what do they have to do with St. Patrick's Day?) album "Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash," and memorial playings of the first "Yes" album featuring Peter Banks on guitar and Iron Maiden's album "The Number of the Beast" featuring Clive Burr on drums. We have to go buy some more Girl Scout cookies. Have a "Pogue Mahone" type week.
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