Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il Is The Shining Sun And The Hope Of All Humankind Video Marathon

While the criminal Bush warmonger spends away all the national budget of the world on weapons of war and armies of aggressive destruction at the expense of education and art, Dear Leader Comrade Generalissimo Kim Jong Il build the Korean nation into the art strong nation by teaching the arts and creating the way of dance, setting Korea as the exemple of the world in cultural developpement.

Dear Leader Kim Jong Il thus showed a way of the truth of life and destiny. Comrade Kim Jong Il is the Master of the arts! MANSE!

1 comment:

Peter K Fallon, Ph.D. said...

Read more at:
http://rujournalism.blogspot.com/2007/02/sleight-of-mind.html

Sleight of Mind
I started noticing something was wrong with television almost immediately after I got into it. I started at NBC in June of 1982. Two years later, the Communications Act of 1984 had changed everything. Pushed through by the Reagan administration under FCC Chairman Mark Fowler (who said TV was in no more need of regulation than any other household appliance, because TV was just "a toaster with pictures"), this began the era of media deregulation. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Images become more important than words and ideas. Images sell air time. Ratings begin to matter. Extremely visual stories trump "boring" stories that might, however, actually affect us. And even when TV is covering newsworthy stories, the coverage is brief and lacks context, and the entire experience seems incoherent.

Today, news has become entertainment, entertainment has become news, and the viewer has become ignorant of the world around him.

Read more at:
http://rujournalism.blogspot.com/2007/02/sleight-of-mind.html