THE NEWS IS BROKEN
Okay, this whole Karr thing -- I refuse to call him/it by the three name serial killer moniker they all get -- with him and the giant shrimp and champagne on the plane while the world blows up and people go hungry and don't even get me stahhhted, as they say in Boston.
This is all so much like the Peter Sellers' movie Being There where, how could this happen?, an idiot becomes President and television is king because Chauncey Gardener, the prez who is really a Gardener (probably a uniter, not a divider too, but I don't remember), only speaks in quotes from TV. And so much like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. NPR said it best, "The news is broken." But geniuses like Jon Stewart and Keith Olberman did fantasticly great montages of the Cable Talking Heads reporting -- ad nauseum doesn't begin to do it. ad AIDs maybe -- on the shrimp and the cocktails and Karr combing his hair. The media has reached a new absolute zero low and the Fake News people are peeing their pants with joy.
Such a bizarre week. I get to have a photo shoot and be a Cover Girl and the news breaks.
My Racism radar goes berserk when shit like this happens. When the missing children are African-American or Latino, what happens? Zilch. Nada. It's not Katrina level racism, but it sucks. This beautiful white girl has actually had someone at Homeland Security helping to find her killer. It's enough already. It's so sad, of course. Poor parents. Poor parents who exploited their child by dressing her as a tiny sexy adult... Whole other area for another discussion.
In the meantime New Orleans has another hurricane heading its way, last year's mess is still a hideous blight and reminder -- I soooo want to know where all the money we donated went, not to mention the government money. Agghhhhh. And the news is broken.
This is all so much like the Peter Sellers' movie Being There where, how could this happen?, an idiot becomes President and television is king because Chauncey Gardener, the prez who is really a Gardener (probably a uniter, not a divider too, but I don't remember), only speaks in quotes from TV. And so much like Nero fiddling while Rome burned. NPR said it best, "The news is broken." But geniuses like Jon Stewart and Keith Olberman did fantasticly great montages of the Cable Talking Heads reporting -- ad nauseum doesn't begin to do it. ad AIDs maybe -- on the shrimp and the cocktails and Karr combing his hair. The media has reached a new absolute zero low and the Fake News people are peeing their pants with joy.
Such a bizarre week. I get to have a photo shoot and be a Cover Girl and the news breaks.
My Racism radar goes berserk when shit like this happens. When the missing children are African-American or Latino, what happens? Zilch. Nada. It's not Katrina level racism, but it sucks. This beautiful white girl has actually had someone at Homeland Security helping to find her killer. It's enough already. It's so sad, of course. Poor parents. Poor parents who exploited their child by dressing her as a tiny sexy adult... Whole other area for another discussion.
In the meantime New Orleans has another hurricane heading its way, last year's mess is still a hideous blight and reminder -- I soooo want to know where all the money we donated went, not to mention the government money. Agghhhhh. And the news is broken.
posted by TheodoraK at 12:45 PM
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