Tuesday, 29. April 2008, 02:58:23
just plain stupid, media criticism, worthless Mass Media, What Yahoos are into
...
So anyway... I'm at Lucky Supermarket, picking up a prescription at the pharmacy (a story in itself, involving the reasons why pharmacists should refrain from "snacking" on the job...)-- when I see
THIS:
on the magazine aisle. My first thought is this: obviously someone has determined that there is a significant market for this sort of publication (and not for such
fringe periodicals such as
Discover,
Smithsonian, and
National Geographic).
I figure this would be an amusing "fluff piece" for my blog, and I look for a cover shot on the internet, where
I come across this website, with the following publications available for perusal by fitness pervs of discriminating palattes:
Butt WAIT! There's MORE!!!
Wednesday, 13. September 2006, 21:20:32
Media Vulture, Karl Kraus, torture, media criticism
...
well, as one may suspect from this post, I'm not at work, so I have time to kill-- hence this posting...
the situation isn't dire, but I'm not holding my breath. And I have another interview for
yet another place...
Anyway... in lew of financial renumeration for my efforts, once again I turn to the
masturbatory simple rewards of a blog well done: in this case, my news and media criticism blog (dedicated to the late great Turn'o'the [last] Century Austrian media critic, Karl Kraus),
Media Vulture.
This week, I present a parsing of one of George Bush's recent addresses, in which he expresses his displeasure with the Articles of the Geneva Convention (and International Law in general), and extolls the virtues of such wholesome activities as running Secret Prisons, Torture, and Military Tribunals.
Enjoy!