What is news? And why do we just call the whole damn blathering mess “the media”? Is the message the media itself, as Marshall McLuhan famously said? God help us if it is…because the media is morass of prurient details, bogus scarefests and misanthropic misdirections. It’s hard to find “news” in between all those Astronauts…
Today, in an exclusive interview with high-gloss newsreader Elizabeth Vargas, President Gas told her and America that he hopes history jugdes his Presidency as one of “peace.” Yup. Peace. Vargas, in typical Ameican supine media fashion, didn’t immediately ask him the obvious. Jesus H. Christ! It’s comical. But let me tell you…the Bushes are basically…
To see or to be seen…that is the question. This city is, ostensibly, about running the most powerful nation in the world, doling out tax dollars and greasing the wheels of justice. The subtext, though, is celebrity. Fame and immortality, being known beyond your small circle and short life…these things compel us to do many…