Comments on: What Is Wrong With Our Culture? http://www.fourmajor.com/index.php/2009/07/07/what-is-wrong-with-our-culture/ fourmajor | blog Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:23:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: FourMajor http://www.fourmajor.com/index.php/2009/07/07/what-is-wrong-with-our-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-90980 FourMajor Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:45:07 +0000 http://www.fourmajor.com/?p=682#comment-90980 @shmooth: I agree with you that MJ isn't entirely irrelevant, but yeah, just pointing out that the whole thing is entirely overblown, like you said "the entire corporate media forgetting about the rest of the world." @shmooth: I agree with you that MJ isn’t entirely irrelevant, but yeah, just pointing out that the whole thing is entirely overblown, like you said “the entire corporate media forgetting about the rest of the world.”

]]> By: shmooth http://www.fourmajor.com/index.php/2009/07/07/what-is-wrong-with-our-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-90956 shmooth Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:54:50 +0000 http://www.fourmajor.com/?p=682#comment-90956 i think there's a lot to be said for MJ -- maybe not the entire corporate media forgetting about the rest of the world -- but the dude was definitely someone/something special. Black & White, man! :) besides, his coverage pisses off wingnuts -- that's pretty cool, in my book. i haven't read this article yet by Hedges, but seems like it might be good: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090629_the_truth_alone_will_not_set_you_free/ <me>Our economic crisis—despite the corporate media circus around the death of Michael Jackson or Gov. Mark Sanford’s marital infidelity or the outfits of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest incarnation, Brüno—barrels forward. And this crisis will lead to a period of profound political turmoil and change. Those who care about the plight of the working class and the poor must begin to mobilize quickly or we will lose our last opportunity to save our embattled democracy. The most important struggle will be to wrest the organs of communication from corporations that use mass media to demonize movements of social change and empower proto-fascist movements such as the Christian right.</me> i think there’s a lot to be said for MJ — maybe not the entire corporate media forgetting about the rest of the world — but the dude was definitely someone/something special. Black & White, man! :)

besides, his coverage pisses off wingnuts — that’s pretty cool, in my book.

i haven’t read this article yet by Hedges, but seems like it might be good:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090629_the_truth_alone_will_not_set_you_free/

Our economic crisis—despite the corporate media circus around the death of Michael Jackson or Gov. Mark Sanford’s marital infidelity or the outfits of Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest incarnation, Brüno—barrels forward. And this crisis will lead to a period of profound political turmoil and change. Those who care about the plight of the working class and the poor must begin to mobilize quickly or we will lose our last opportunity to save our embattled democracy. The most important struggle will be to wrest the organs of communication from corporations that use mass media to demonize movements of social change and empower proto-fascist movements such as the Christian right.

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