or Powell's or me• • •
"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
April 16, 2008
More On The Corporate Crapitude Of The "Newseum"
• Jim Hopkins: "Overby politics make strange (prison) bedfellows"
Charles Overby, head of the foundation which runs the Newseum is also on the board of Corrections Corporation of America. Jim Hopkins explains why these two things don't fit together well.
• David Essex: "How the Newsoleum Buried the Lead"
"I found the glass and stone space alienating and headachy, like a hangover in an airport waiting-room, throbbing with the feed from cable news."
I agree, although I would be less complimentary.
—Jonathan Schwarz
Posted at April 16, 2008 12:52 PM1. That term, "MSM". I think it's too amorphous and can mean anything that I don't agree with spewing from the media. I much prefer the term "consolidated media" because it's the consolidation, the top down agenda (corporate), that drives the spew. Once media is a consolidated entity, you can be sure that it will act in its self interest, and particularly in the self interest of the top decision makers that are driven by profit and maintaining power.
2. I can understand the lesson learned from the Holocaust Museum being in peripheral eyesight of the capitol, so I would assume that the reason it's a short distance away is to guarantee consolidated media's right to exist and its place in the US plutocracy if that is ever questioned. On the upside, keeping all the eggs in one basket has all sorts of downsides.
Posted by: angryman@24:10 at April 17, 2008 09:27 AM
