tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post844991895416789528..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: Bad Bubble! Bad Bad Bad!Alexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-56063888617007949172014-04-09T07:34:30.119-06:002014-04-09T07:34:30.119-06:00Thank you, Clovis. I still want to take the entir...Thank you, Clovis. I still want to take the entire editorial staff and owners of NE out into a Taco Bell parking lot somewhere and shoot them, but you're also correct. If Aaron Sorkin wants to do a modern show about journalism, it ought to be about a bunch of callous, inciteful, money-grubbing opportunists, without morality or scruples ... just in keeping with the modern institutional journalistic climate.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-12875321240783179952014-04-09T06:26:49.844-06:002014-04-09T06:26:49.844-06:00You are correct about the state of cultural and po...You are correct about the state of cultural and political reporting; my favorite news source is Asia Times.<br /><br />The National Enquirer (NE) does celebrity reporting,<br />They are excellent at discovering affairs and divorce details months before the main stream media<br /><br />Monica Lewinski*<br />John Edwards<br />Garth Brooks + Tricia Yearwood<br />Kim Kardasian + Kanye<br />Tim McCraw and Faith Hill<br /><br />They also reported extensively about the drug use of Witney Houston as well as Farrah Fawcet’s cancer<br /><br />Their sources* are paid, their journalists are well compensated and their material is cross checked<br /><br />*usually celebrity’s maids, gardeners , chauffer, siblings and ‘friends’ <br /><br />Do not confuse the National Enquirer with People, Globe and other tabloids; a years subscription of the NE will clearly show the NE is right more than wrong.<br /><br />In the extremely litigious USA, printing known slander is deserving of compen$ation, while (in theory) “the truth is an absolute defense.”<br />… <br />The last celebrity who successfully sued the NE was Carol Burnett.Clovis Cithoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18208194219083373456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-58434134784278882022014-04-08T21:35:46.068-06:002014-04-08T21:35:46.068-06:00This needs to be viewed in terms of modern journal...<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/video/2012/jun/26/clay-shirky-future-news-journalists" rel="nofollow">This needs to be viewed in terms of modern journalism</a>.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-59808488398781954152014-04-08T21:11:31.756-06:002014-04-08T21:11:31.756-06:00Sorry, Clovis; a defense of the National Enquirer ...Sorry, Clovis; a defense of the National Enquirer is going to require more evidence than your say-so; I did not want to delete the comment, but as it contained no actual content beyond your assertion, I had no choice.<br /><br />At any rate, my post was not so much an attack against journalism per se, as an attack against Hollywood's piss-poor portrayal against journalism. Of course there is journalism going on right now, only I dispute that it serves any worthy purpose. The fact that the National Enquirer, or any other journalistic entity, produces a news story is irrelevant, since all news in this day and age is heavily biased against the poor, heavily biased in favor of the present corrupt system never, ever changing, and heavily biased in supporting the agenda which uses the media to place people in power who are approved of by the media (try to get elected without the media's support).<br /><br />This reality, which we are all aware of, is NOT depicted in Hollywood or elsewhere, because that is the media, owned and operated by the same persons who own and operate the news. This is why the intellectual community has escaped into the computer, where information is immediate and uncensored, as well as unrestricted (the mpa website at the top being an example) in its morality.<br /><br />As a culture, we've already stopped thinking of 'news' in terms of stories and articles interpreted by institutions, and started viewing it in terms of immediate events that we share instantly between ourselves and those we know. This is something the traditional media doesn't want us to think is true ... like Oz telling us not to look at the man behind the curtain.Alexis Smolenskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-47973033851322671662014-04-08T11:42:13.297-06:002014-04-08T11:42:13.297-06:00I find the news depressing. Instead, I stick to po...I find the news depressing. Instead, I stick to podcasts and journals I find pertinent. They are far more informative and less sensationalist. Stuart Lloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15100216520313336932noreply@blogger.com