Comments on: Memo: Upcoming News Cycles http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/ America's favorite blog Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:02:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Dee http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5052 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5052 "...the hour of our Trials is nigh" Not since the Special Prosecutor law was allowed to lapse, Karl. “…the hour of our Trials is nigh”

Not since the Special Prosecutor law was allowed to lapse, Karl.

]]> by: Bryan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5053 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5053 Hmmm, perhaps Karl has heard something about the Plame grand jury. Hmmm, perhaps Karl has heard something about the Plame grand jury.

]]> by: Pat R. http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5054 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5054 Hmmm -- this memo bears a creepy similiarity in both tone and form to the recently-discovered boilerplate for Sauron's periodic memos to <i>his</i> minions. (Second Age, Middle-america-earth.) Hmmm — this memo bears a creepy similiarity in both tone and form to the recently-discovered boilerplate for Sauron’s periodic memos to his minions. (Second Age, Middle-america-earth.)

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5055 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5055 Amazing how news, no matter how heinous, can be so easily neutralized by calling it "old news". “Aliens land on White House Lawn and demand that the Bush Administration halt its anti-environmental policies or earth will be destroyed, (aliens will do it this time).” Aaah, "Old news" Amazing how news, no matter how heinous, can be so easily neutralized by calling it “old news”.

“Aliens land on White House Lawn and demand that the Bush Administration halt its anti-environmental policies or earth will be destroyed, (aliens will do it this time).”

Aaah, “Old news”

]]> by: Dubya http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5056 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5056 Hey Karl, Don't forget to remind everyone that no mention is to be made of the increase in the number of Halliburton contracts and Dick at any cost. Hey Karl,
Don’t forget to remind everyone that no mention is to be made of the increase in the number of Halliburton contracts and Dick at any cost.

]]> by: Linkmeister http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5057 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5057 Where is the young Hunter Thompson when we so desparately need him? "Fear and Loathing 2004" has a certain caché to it, doncha think? Portentously... Where is the young Hunter Thompson when we so desparately need him? “Fear and Loathing 2004″ has a certain caché to it, doncha think?

Portentously…

]]> by: Fishmael http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5058 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2004/05/30/memo-upcoming-news-cycles/#comment-5058 Murray. The reason they can get away with effectively declawing events by calling them "old news" is that we the audience have been trained to have short attention spans, and there aren't many ("progressive") institutions set up to keep these issues alive for any length of time. The "media" are corporate-capitalist, monopolistic, short-term profit-seeking, entertainment operations, and we're the worse of for it all. Those aliens would have a better chance if they had breasts that resembled those of human females, and they exposed themselves from time to time, eh? We still wouldn't listen, but at least they'd get our attention for a few minutes. Murray. The reason they can get away with effectively declawing events by calling them “old news” is that we the audience have been trained to have short attention spans, and there aren’t many (”progressive”) institutions set up to keep these issues alive for any length of time. The “media” are corporate-capitalist, monopolistic, short-term profit-seeking, entertainment operations, and we’re the worse of for it all.

Those aliens would have a better chance if they had breasts that resembled those of human females, and they exposed themselves from time to time, eh? We still wouldn’t listen, but at least they’d get our attention for a few minutes.

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