"Reuters previously reported that DOJ drafted a legal opinion backing demands for unredacted state voter rolls, even as federal judges in several states blocked those demands." And all of this shit only matters if Trump and Elon didn't rig the entire system for the next forty years. And the only people who care are the people who'll get even more screwed than they already are from the original rig job that said "All men are created equal," meaning all white men, you know, the 29%-31% MINNORITY who rig the game every time. Sorry, everybody else.
You make SO much GD sense! Much of your work is just common sense, and yet it needs to be said (Loudly) in print before it registers publicly. Thank you
Dear Xplisset VOA, Your explanation of your Media Crit Point #11 below is classic and contains a mnemonic that may help Media Critics retain a phrase that should be on any street-smart activist's lips: It almost gets lost in the generosity and rich clarification that comes with your zingers: Here, let me cut & paste the quote I've gone back through this deep strand of coverage and Media\Mob Defusion As Analysis:
" Why it matters: The machinery is spectacle as camouflage. The ballroom gets the laugh line. The immigration enforcement package gets the money. Black immigrants, Haitian families, Latino communities, Muslim migrants, mixed-status households, and U.S. citizens near enforcement operations are the ones most likely to learn that “security” is not neutral."
I can't knock you for 'burying the lede' because each of your faithful readers like me are looking for other nuggets of each of your essays of not only Media Analysis but your exposition on how law enforcement, legislative and corporate-captured mass media Enforcers and Gate-Keepers defuse the build-up of raw and raucous reaction to such carefully thought through Levers of Mass Suppression.
All this to say "..The machinery is spectacle as camouflage" is as worthy of a first rate university Mass Communications essay or theory and even better yet Journalism School course delivered by the great Media Studies educators of my life-time like Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael or his son Christian Parenti, Noam Chomsky (with sometimes collaborator Ed Herman) as well as daughter Avi Chomsky, Jonathan Kwitny, Ishmael Reed, Naomi Klein, Marie Colvin, Sandra 'Standpoint Theory' Harding, Patricia Hill Collins, Cheri Seymour, bell hooks, Lila Abu Lughod, Bernardine Dorn and going back a ways early towering pioneers not referenced nearly enough today such as the formidable Ida B. Wells and Ida Tarbell along with practitioner-turned-media scholars like Dorothy Thompson...
Keep on 'splainin', essaying and doing dear and very much valued Xplisset!
"Reuters previously reported that DOJ drafted a legal opinion backing demands for unredacted state voter rolls, even as federal judges in several states blocked those demands." And all of this shit only matters if Trump and Elon didn't rig the entire system for the next forty years. And the only people who care are the people who'll get even more screwed than they already are from the original rig job that said "All men are created equal," meaning all white men, you know, the 29%-31% MINNORITY who rig the game every time. Sorry, everybody else.
Wow! You’ve been busy. Excellent I’ll have to read it again. Well referenced!
You make SO much GD sense! Much of your work is just common sense, and yet it needs to be said (Loudly) in print before it registers publicly. Thank you
Dear Xplisset VOA, Your explanation of your Media Crit Point #11 below is classic and contains a mnemonic that may help Media Critics retain a phrase that should be on any street-smart activist's lips: It almost gets lost in the generosity and rich clarification that comes with your zingers: Here, let me cut & paste the quote I've gone back through this deep strand of coverage and Media\Mob Defusion As Analysis:
" Why it matters: The machinery is spectacle as camouflage. The ballroom gets the laugh line. The immigration enforcement package gets the money. Black immigrants, Haitian families, Latino communities, Muslim migrants, mixed-status households, and U.S. citizens near enforcement operations are the ones most likely to learn that “security” is not neutral."
I can't knock you for 'burying the lede' because each of your faithful readers like me are looking for other nuggets of each of your essays of not only Media Analysis but your exposition on how law enforcement, legislative and corporate-captured mass media Enforcers and Gate-Keepers defuse the build-up of raw and raucous reaction to such carefully thought through Levers of Mass Suppression.
All this to say "..The machinery is spectacle as camouflage" is as worthy of a first rate university Mass Communications essay or theory and even better yet Journalism School course delivered by the great Media Studies educators of my life-time like Barbara Ehrenreich, Michael or his son Christian Parenti, Noam Chomsky (with sometimes collaborator Ed Herman) as well as daughter Avi Chomsky, Jonathan Kwitny, Ishmael Reed, Naomi Klein, Marie Colvin, Sandra 'Standpoint Theory' Harding, Patricia Hill Collins, Cheri Seymour, bell hooks, Lila Abu Lughod, Bernardine Dorn and going back a ways early towering pioneers not referenced nearly enough today such as the formidable Ida B. Wells and Ida Tarbell along with practitioner-turned-media scholars like Dorothy Thompson...
Keep on 'splainin', essaying and doing dear and very much valued Xplisset!
Mitch Ritter
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