Letters to the Editor
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Not too beat a dead horse, but...
...for those who are curious as to the "WHY?" does TIME do this - I would again suggest some inquiry into Chomsky's commments on the media as the PR arm of the ruling class.
Part 1 is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9OP2YXKIFs
Aside: Tough to get into the saloon here, today. And they turned out the lights early (again) last night.
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The Winesburg Eagle vs false Institutional Press
If you were not so informative and protective of America's ideals, I may be outside in the rain-drizzle watching the barley grass grow as green as some buttered flapjacks?
The Winesburg Eagle was where earnest young reporter George Willard, who set out to report the small town's daily news.
It's told in the book by Sherwood Anderson in, 'Winesburg, Ohio' and is a classic masterpiece. It influenced American storytellers, reporters, and truth-tellers such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and John Steinbeck.
Anderson's talent in the character-reporter, George Willard, was he did probe and discovered the town's deepest secrets. The townsfolk confided their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. S/he was doing something good and noble. Good on those reputable writers. Yes. I thank them.
It was in a time when sprawling farms and winding country roads, with barb-wire cow fences, and honeysuckle. A good reporter can make a town/world rise vividly--and poignantly--to Life. hint.
I know this is the 13th century or what time is it (what planet?)? But where is a fresh imagery of true reporting that was told in 'Winesburg, Ohio' in some good will, and honest truth-telling? The 21st century can't racetrack to the lost days when small was more beautiful, and sometimes more innocent...but prose or doze--if these pro-GOP keep it up, the barley grass will be as dead-brown as a burnt hotcakes.
Good for nothing. Doom. Gloom. no-gop. Yuck.
Thanks.
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And the direction of this propaganda? - "I love America, Because America Loves War"
They hire, reward, and promote the worst, most dishonest purveyors of outright propaganda.
Let’s be very clear about where this “outright propaganda” led us and is leading us: War. Permanent war abroad and a “security state” at home where there are no limits on executive power or police power.
This is propaganda with a purpose. First, it enabled the Bush administration to go to war in Iraq and it’s setting the stage for war with Iran and Syria.
Yes, it is distorting the public discourse in a “Limbaugh-like direction” but what, exactly, does that mean?
A recent story from Orlando and the treatment of young women wearing “peace” T-shirts provides a pretty a clear indication of that direction.
After promoting “peace” the young girls could no longer walk down the halls of their school with obscenities being yelled at them. Their peace signs on their lockers were defaced with swastikas and “white power” slogans. It means taping a “I love Bush sign” over someone elses “wage peace” sign. That’s the direction.
That “direction” caused other students to confront the girls wearing “peace” shirts with their own shirts festooned with Confederate flags and sayings like, “This is America, get used to it,” and “If peace is the answer; it must be a stupid question.” The Confederate flags no longer symbolized racism, but, rather, “support for the troops.”
The girls were told they couldn’t “support the troops” and say “peace” at the same time. This is our public discourse in under a “Limbaugh-like direction.”
Perhaps that direction is best summed up in a sign put up over one girls “peace” sign. It is the embodiment of all the propaganda, all the “weak” vs. “strong” subliminal messages sent by Klein and our media that promotes and glorifies a “Limbaugh-like direction” :
“I love America, Because America Loves War”
http://www.local6.com/news/14650138/detail.html
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So nu?
Media Whores Online...come back! Come back!
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Submitted to Digg.com
I recently placed the following, “Time Magazine lavishly rewards journalistic malpractice” in the section, Political News, Upcoming. You can set up an account at Digg.com and support this article.
Besides that, the most effective action will be for people to terminate their subscriptions to Time Magazine with a letter saying something such as, “Because of your low regard for the truth, specifically many of the opinion articles by writers such as Joe Klein, I’m terminating my subscription to your magazine”.
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Morale
You have to wonder what it's like to work at Time when this kind of thing happens. I mean, I doubt that Klein comes to the office much.
Nonetheless, it's pretty easy to imagine Time staffers, especially the underpaid worker bees who keep magazines going, finding this all either pretty funny or pretty horrifying, depending on what kind of fellow Klein is.
I doubt that GG's column is up on any bulletin boards, but I do expect that a link has been emailed around. Likewise the comments on swampland....
So, if there some staffers lurking, we'd love to hear from you.
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Melodious Beatnikboy? Bob, Ho! Groan.
Those gops need to go and 'um are a weak and vengeful foe. And midst the bitter bondage the Rah, rah, Rah, ~Rhamnesian tripod GOP's are creeps who do
sleep.
Hereafter they are on their own. I hear them moan and groan.
A silver Moon is sending light, and plumage winged with gold, the Earth still delights. Gold Hay!
What blooming idiots with puffed up pride disposed to steal at night... I can say, neocons 'um hell bent creeps? Ho! I sure do Hope so. gads. I gotta get...
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A few phrases from four or five decades ago
_Zack_, not to try to diminish your point, but this has been going on for a long time. Not only did we once have pinko, and comsymp, but also better dead than red, love it or leave it, support your local police, get a haircut, and nigger-lover.
All were common when I was young. You heard them daily in the south whenever you tried to discuss labor unions, the perils of nuclear armaments, or the evils of racial discrimination, but their use was certainly not exclusive to the south. Speaking up could be ugly, and sometimes dangerous, depending on where you were.
None of these phrases have been heard much, if at all, in the last thirty years, but the people who once uttered them are still around. They were in a minority then, and they're in a minority now, but they still have, as they did then, friends in high places. Time is what Glenn says it is, but it wasn't all that different when Henry Luce was running it, and then, as now, we were the targets, even though the reasons for attacking us might have appeared to be different.
In my opinion, those differences are superficial; the war is the same. I think remembering how we got here, and who's been dogging us throughout, should always be kept in mind. Even if we win this battle, the war is still far from over.