Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Condoleezza Rice says:
There’s something really fitting about an incompetent cold war analyst and beneficiary of the right wing patronage system handling international relations. There’s no point in half measures, and her moral clarity makes her ideal.
Posted by harry on from 11/17 at 10:02 AMthey’re going to run her for vice-president in 2008, just wait and see! Jeb and Condi—boy, will that eat everybody’s lunch. the left will drop dead.
anybody remember that blind black man who runs an illegal radio station out of some big mid-west city like cincinnatti or cleveland or somewhere? the guy they keep busting for broadcasting from his house in the ghetto? (this is completely unrelated to the topic at hand—I’m just trying to find info on this guy for a college kid).
thanks!
stacyPosted by stacy on from 11/17 at 01:12 PMHow about Guiliani/Condi?
Don’t know the guy you mention, Stacy, but I’ll look into it.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/17 at 01:14 PMyou’re forgetting Ahnold...they’re trying to change the constitution as we speak. Now that would secure our place as the strangest, scariest (along with most destructive) country in the world!
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 11/17 at 02:03 PMRudy, Condi, Jeb, Ah-nold on one side.
Hillary, Edwards, Obama on the other.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/17 at 02:20 PMand no matter who you get it’s all the same.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 11/17 at 03:43 PMStacy-- Mbanna Kantako is the Springfield, Ill.-based radio station operator to whom I believe you were referring. More info about him can be found at http://www.diymedia.net/mbanna/ and http://www.humanrightsradio.net/
Posted by Mark Hand on from 11/17 at 07:31 PMWhen you need info like this, there is no one better than Mark and Nancy. Thanks.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/17 at 07:41 PMDo you guys know Glen Ford over at BlackCommentator? This Condi appointment will be great for them - they’re the ones who said Rice “used to be black,” I think. They’ll have a field day reaming her…
Posted by John F. Eden on from Jesup, GA 11/17 at 09:22 PMIt took me a while to really grasp that the apparent differences between people like Hillary Clinton and Donald Rumsfeld are the result of PR spin. They sit on the same boards, their children go to the same schools, the coy bipartisanship is just them eating from the same trough and the “feuds” are a dog and pony show, strictly for the television audience.
If sufficient pressure is brought to bear, one is as likely as another to grudgingly do something decent. Left unpressured, they will cooperate in driving the country into ignorance, poverty and war.
I used to consider recognition of this radical. Now, it’s as obvious as the need to brush my teeth.
Posted by harry on from 11/18 at 12:03 AMThis whole scene hauntingly reminds me of The Wizard of Oz; and, how the “little people” of Oz were totally taken in by the grand illusion of The Wizard’s stature and larger-than-life demeanor. Only to have the curtain pulled back by a little dog named Toto, who revealed a pathetic, little man behind the illusion of a much larger one.
I see the next four years as a very special time for Toto to do his/her curtain-pulling thing. And Toto, is us.
Posted by Nader Rider on from 11/18 at 12:27 AMThanks, Harry and NR...and thanks to your little dog, too.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/18 at 08:44 AMIt’s not topical, but I wanted to let you and your readers know about two good (free) services for sending large files. They’re especially good for musicians and people who work in video or multimedia. I’ve used dropload often. They’re both very simple and efficient. The web has lots of hidden anarchic goodness. Left to their own devices, people tend to be as generous as possible.
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Posted by harry on from 11/18 at 03:00 PMI work in the local media, and let me give some free advice. If you want to see better balanced coverage, blanket your local media with emails and calls, jam our fax machines with letters--call the news directors and demand the whole truth, not just what the mainstream gives you. For example, have you seen any follow-up with families who lose their loved ones fighting for us? No--you get the usually shocked family member saying right after news of the death, “he/she did it for his/her country”, in effect it becomes a story of patriotism, not what’s really going on over there. Demand more local coverage...effects of deaths on loved ones not just emotionally, but financially. Don’t let the media get tired of digging, because they do and they will. It’s easier to ignore and go on to the next fire, than to keep digging. Don’t let it happen!
Posted by Pat on from Chicago 11/18 at 03:16 PMThank yu to Harry and Pat...for two completely different forms of advice. Pat: Any further input on how to get a reaction from the media? I’d imagine on a lower level, it could work. For the corporate media, it’s typically a different ball game.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/18 at 03:48 PMThanks Mickey Z. for an excellent question. Here’s the scoop. Most local media has tentacles to the mother-squid. For example, in Chicago all the local stations are owned by the networks. The station considered independent is WGN, which is owned by the Tribune. So, there’svery much corporate control at work. But my feeling is that a local station is a little or lot more (depending on certain factors of course) receptive to its audience and other local pressures that bear upon it. For example, the mayor of this town has chronic problems with the media for his own reason. But say, if his office were flooded with irate news consumers, he’s likely to respond to it, and the local media would have to carry that message on its newscasts. I guess I’m saying that before you can change the networks view of the status quo, you start from the inside and work up. Believe me when I say that viewers who call DO get attention. Local news directors cherish every viewer, and don’t like pissing them off. I have other suggestions, but I’ve already used up alot of space here.
Posted by pat on from 11/18 at 03:56 PMThanks again, Pat. Perhaps I’ll set up a test ru of sorts soon.
As for “using up a lot of space,” hey, that’s what this space is here for: To be used.
Hope you’ll make this site a regular stop.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/18 at 04:03 PMHey Pat,
Your reply went to the folk e site but I wanted to make sure it was posted here:
“Thanks for the gracious welcome, and thanks for hosting a great site. I’ve passed it on to my colleagues hoping they’ll also be inspired.”
Thanks…
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/18 at 04:51 PM
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