Age vs propaganda

Let me first say, politics is a blood sport and I really have lost interest of the years. It amazes me that we teach our children not to bully each other, and laws are passed stopping them, but yet politicians have free reign to destroy each other and use NSA secrets or back alley Sallys to their advantage. The more dirt the better.. the more chances a politician can be destroyed in front of the media spotlight.. And then the other guy wins.

Midnight or bedtime?

Art Bell, back in his time, had a different take. He did politics for some time. But changing the format equaled a success that has been unparalleled by any in comparison. 

Art Bell is coming back to radio. But will people back to him?

….so this guy, without any protective gear, was sneaking behind walls to take a photo of the Ebola patient arriving in Emory..

Either stupidity.. or perhaps a clear sign that my hunch is right: This was a decoy van for publicity and media attention while the real one was either there already or going in another way..

How surreal this ambulance driver’s day must be.. The entire world is watching.. I get nervous at backseat drivers. Imagine the entire television viewing audience watching his every move and potential traffic violation..

Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity Hit New Ratings Highs With Crisis Coverage

Coverage of both the Malaysia Airlines downed over Ukraine and unrest in the Gaza region helped two Fox News Channel programs reach new total-audience highs, according to data from Nielsen

Kelly is easy on the eyes. Hannity is not. Depending on your political beliefs, their voices are either that of angels or fingernails dragging on chalk boards. Regardless of it all: They won big. 

I think one guy and my neighbor watched MSNBC’s coverage.

Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity Hit New Ratings Highs With Crisis Coverage

Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life

This is the last time I’m going to talk about my personal life in an American publication ever again.

A very interesting article and interview from VULTURE .. Alec Baldwin says MSNBC didn’t pay him, he says he loathes the media.. and he pages Holden Caulfield with this quote about Rachel Maddow:

I think Rachel Maddow is quite good at what she does. I also think she’s a phony who doesn’t have the same passion for the truth off-camera that she seems to have on the air

Ouch…

Alec Baldwin: Good-bye, Public Life

Battle for Ukraine: (we’ll cover it since the United States media won’t)

• Ukraine justice minister in state of emergency warning


• Justice ministry seized..


• Barricades burn..


• Video shows rioters brutally beating police..


• Rioters occupy government buildings in Ukraine..


• The protests in Ukraine continue to spread; Conditions in Kiev deteriorate..

SUPERJESUSFREAKS

Get ready for people to make constant comparisons between Superman and Jesus.. 

It seems that the new filmmakers of SUPERMAN actually are utilizing it to their benefit to market the film..

Will people worship SUPERMAN? Did the Bible actually mean the ‘second coming’ was going to be the sequel in a new SUPERMAN franchise??

And why isn’t SUPERMAN American!

Oh.. that’s the Mormons..

I am confused..

And haven’t we heard this story before anyway?

Cable news topping their broadcasts tonight with the AP Justice Department story tonight

This could be a turning point in this Administration and its relationship with the press.

It was the longest honeymoon of all time.. But every page must turn..

I guess it is time to end any further speculation that I will return to the air anytime soon. I have given (2) very solid offers a lot of thought and have turned them down. My reasons are many, though I am profoundly sad at the current state of the show, both offers would have been direct competition with Coast and anger is the wrong reason to proceed. Also I really do not want to destroy what I built despite it’s current state. Asia will be in first grade in the Fall and getting up very early, I would be up late and sleeping late, I would not see much of her or Airyn. Life is short and I want to spend what I have left with my Family. I hope my friends understand…

Art Bell, dashing any hopes on Facebook tonight that he’d come back to radio.

The fourth estate is dead

I have to say after watching the past several hours of news, I can only say that the mainstream media as it was, including cable news, is slowly going to be gone over the next few years. Twitter and 4Chan did more exclusive reporting than the big time press.. Amazing job, being scooped by users of Twitter, late night tin foil radio show tosts, and 4Channers.. Amazing.

By now you’ve seen or heard about the horrible event last night involving Louisville player Kevin Ware. (Video here, watch at your own risk) 

It was so graphic that CBS even halted replays of the leg break.. It’s most obviously the water cooler talk this morning and will be rehashed over and over again throughout the day.

When it happened, however, something else struck me about the affair. Immediately Twitter lit up with people’s thoughts, and my Facebook friends’ collective chatter was all about Ware. I get it.. It was a sports injury live on TEE VEE, it was enough to make you queasy.. and we all celebrate March Madness like it’s a religious event. So it makes sense..

But what is absent from Twitter and my Facebook friends’ profiles? Any or all words about innocent children killed in drone attacks in Pakistan. Any and all stories about the civilians’ lives we left in shambles in Iraq after ten years of war (those who survived).. And and all knowledge of North Korean death camps.. Any and all information about, well, pretty much anything to do with the African continent.

I guess I reluctantly understand this. I come from the coal region, where football and sports is worshiped.  Often, high school players get a VIP treatment.. And nationally, as the economic crumbling still happens and the moral decay is evident, we turn more and more to sports .. it’s a vacuum that sucks up the depression. We cheer on our high-paid professionals as though they know we are doing it.. we cry and wine about the other team that simply wears a different uniform color. We get angry and argue about college kids on a court.. and yes, when one falls by the wayside, we gather around the young hero and honor him with glory—of course while we voyeuristically gratify ourselves by watching the hero’s injury take place over and over again. 

Not to take anything away form Kevin Ware, but it’s certainly amazing how little we know about a worldwide network of pedophiles.. How little we know about the amount of drone attacks in Pakistan.. how little we are aware of the Monsanto Protection Act..

But we know batting averages.
Football facts.
Boxing bouts…
And hell, even professional wrestling stars’ real names.

But did you know that, once again, America is getting ready to prop up another leader in the Middle East? This time in Syria? That’s not an April fools joke.

A few days ago I posted something on my Facebook page about the concerns I have with the Monsanto Protection Act, as signed into law by President Obama. My sister commented in a straight-shooting fashion:

Nobody cares about genetically modified corn until there is a crop failure like there was in South Africa in 2009. If fuel and veggie prices skyrocket…then they’ll care. Until then…this is tin foil hat stuff to most, Bryan.

And I bet no one knows much  about that crop failure in 2009, now do we?

Hey, there was a earthquake in Haiti .. we had a telethon. Oh and a tsunami and meltdown  in Japan.. we had a telethon. And Sandy .. we had a telethon.

All events of true importance somehow slip away like they never even existed in the first place. We are left in the end with sports…

Those football stars of the coal region often have something in common with heroes of Friday night lights from across America: Many don’t follow their dreams and make it big. Instead, they end up at the local watering hall, sometimes wearing old sports jerseys from their heyday, but always reliving the past and wishing it was still the present.

They now have Kevin Ware’s leg to speak about for a while..

In the mean time, other events that shape our lives will occur. But we’ll turn that off. It’s too inconvenient for us..

After 80 years of print, the DAILY VARIETY  stops the press in favor of focusing on the web..

Midnight in the desert

The former king of the night, Art Bell, chose to give up broadcasting Coast to Coast AM on a full time basis years ago.  Unbeknownst to many, In October 2010 he did his final show when he did Ghost to Ghost AM from the Philippines .. Since then he has not appeared on the program, even though host George Noory signs off nightly using Art Bell’s name. Also on Saturday nights across radio stations and the internet, older broadcasts of Art Bell are replayed called “Somewhere in Time.” 

For now..

Tonight on his Facebook page, Art Bell announced,

"I have made a request that Premiere Radio cease Broadcasting the Saturday "Somewhere in Time" shows."

Art Bell moved back to the United States some time in 2011.. around the same time, he began posting brief messages on Facebook.. His messages have been from posts about boxing matches to some commentary on how he is not involved with Coast to Coast AM. 

A few months ago, he responded to a question about whether he would appear on the radio program again: He said no.. In the meantime, various large affiliates around the nation have stopped broadcasting Coast to Coast AM in some major markets.. 

George Noory’s direction has taken the show from unpredictable and paranormal to political and conspiratorial.. 

Now the new posting on Facebook has already created a huge online buzz.. 

Comments to Bell’s post range from confusion to sadness, and others are thanking him for trying to completely disassociate himself with the radio program.. 

Rumors persist that he will be back on the air full time..

Bell turned 67 this past Sunday. Perhaps a birthday gift to all will be his coming from the shadows of the desert to explain exactly what occurred that led him to begin a complete dissolution with Noory et al..

….Art Bell, can you please come back to radio….?

Could it be! The 9/11 hysteria in the media is actually about selling fear!?

Now they wouldn’t do that, would they?

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