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September 22, 2009
- I’ve always been fascinated by the brand names on machines and other products. Our bathroom scale is a Health o meter (sic). The scale in my health club is a Detecto. The centrifuge for drying swimsuits is a Suitmate. The card-operated lock on the locker is a Safe-O-Mat. The combination locks on the rented lockers are Zephyrs. I have a Swingline stapler and a Parlinda illuminated magnifier on ...
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September 10, 2009
- On 4 September, the AP okayed the distribution / publication of a photo of a mortally wounded Marine. The response from many was that it was sensationalist/insensitive/an anti-war tactic/inappropriate/cruel to the family. Others responded with the argument that the picture was horrible, yes. But so is war. Face it. Ian and I talked about it last night. It seemed important to have at least a ...
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September 10, 2009
- Such a pretty girl and I did not put up her photograph. It was deliberate. The good-looking dead grab more newsprint and TV space because we need a relief from eyesores of calamities and tragedies even if they come in the form of victims. Especially if they are victims. Our sorrow can get heightened. The argument is that had I shown her face before she died, then the tragedy would have hit harder ...
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September 6, 2009
- In the movies that acted as my education the journalist were heroes, sleeves rolled up, typing with two fingers on a manual Royal typewriter. They smoked cigars, even the women reporters, they talked as they typed. People yelled, "hold the front page." These heroes ferreted out corruption, took down puppet mayors, defended the falsely accused and uncovered the truth that would ...
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September 5, 2009
- Does the name Levi Johnston sound familiar to you? If you have any idea who this person is by name alone, then you are way ahead of me; that is until I clicked on MSNBC headlines around 6:00 A.M. yesterday morning. Once I began to read the article presented on the site by the fine folks at People.com, I remembered the incident that first propelled Johnston into the public arena. He’s the guy ...
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August 24, 2009
- In a 2008 issue called 'Gone Too Soon,' PEOPLE magazine's editor admitted that when Elvis died in 1977, PEOPLE, then a new magazine, feared that featuring the passing of the acknowledged scion of modern rock and roll would be "too morbid." In a magazinedevoted to "the headlong energy of celebrity and popular culture" readers, the editors feared, would recoil. Instead, the ...
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August 24, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 2August 24, 2009 at 3:18 am · Filed under Culture The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 2Headlines versus propaganda lets see what makes commercial news and local media. A star has lost its luster or they are questioning a prominent athletes gender and have the nerve to actually run tests on her. South African teenager Caster Semenya won the ...
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August 19, 2009
- If you all read yesterday's blog, or are one of my friends on facebook, you realize the day I had yesterday. However powerful it may have been it was reflective and indeed sad. The events from my evening before, plus the fact that on that evening, as shawn my roommate put it, not only were we placed center in a tragic situation, our house was indeed the triage for everything that surrounded the ...
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August 12, 2009
- Can you face the truth? This is what an Indian television show based on America’s The Moment of Truth seems to ask its guests and, vicariously, its participants. Sach ka Saamna has already landed in trouble because people are confessing about their sex lives, their marital discords, their misdemeanours. The Indian courts have suddenly becoming liberal and have not permitted any action against ...
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August 10, 2009
- The famous psychiatrist Carl Jung developed the idea of synchronicity: The coincidental occurrence of events that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality. We have termed these events coincidence; recently such an occurrence caught my attention: But first, I must digress.It has been requested of me to write more regarding mental health, and the steps ...
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