bechthros's Journal: braindead media

so i'm watching cnn this morning and soledad o'brien makes a comment that youtube was a "player" in the last election, referring to the "mukaka moment."

youtube is a MEDIUM. so to say that youtube was responsible for the "mukaka moment" is like holding the owner of a gas station responsible for the graffiti on the bathroom walls.

you could make the argument that whoever posted the video of the mukaka moment was the "player" - but you'd still be wrong.

the only person responsible for the word "mukaka" is the one who said it - george allen.

but to hold somebody accountable for the thing that they actually said, makes you somehow a "player"? can you even begin to imagine the hue and cry that would have gone up from the mainstream media if hillary clinton had made that comment?

but here we are again, watching a leading tv personality on a network owned by media megalith time warner attempt to portray as liberal the very MEDIUM used by someone who didn't even use their own words against a GOP candidate, but dared to simply publicize the candidate's own.

anybody else think maybe it's a good time for the people to take back control of the airwaves from the corporate elite?

Soledad

[Profane MuthaFucka]

She's one of the dumber of the articulating noggins on TV these days. But the real problem is obvious if you think about it. Once upon a time, Soledad must have been a journalism student. Now, think back to your college days.

Journalism student? JOURNALISM???? That's like a communications major. A M-R-S degree. Bimbos and idiots. Go to a strip club in a college town and ask the dancer what her major is. She's probably a journalism major.

Re:

[iminplaya]

Go to a strip club in a college town and ask the dancer what her major is. She's probably a journalism major.

In the dives, maybe. The nice places have girls that are in law school. That's what they tell me anyway.

I Can't Watch This Stuff

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

It is like looking at one of the broadcasts in Brazil, without the quaint politeness or Anglicism.

All of it is pure manipulation, distortion and misdirection. Like Starbucks: What flavor of Disinfo do you want today? Fox or MSNBC? CNN or PBS? Me, I'm a double, tall decaf Americano drinker!

There is no way anyone gazing into the Palantir of American cab/sat news can do other than stare into the Unblinking Eye.