--- Below is my comment on Bill Moyer's Huffington Post Blog Entry "On Murdoch" ---
Mr. Moyers, I think you are quite accurate in saying that Murdoch is "all appetite and no taste" in pursuit of his fresh corporate prey. Murdoch's pursuit of the Wall Street Journal has more to do with his ego than his need. That the Bancroft family has been reticent to give him what he wants has only stoked his passions to make the Wall Street Journal his possession. It's not what the Wall Street Journal "is" that makes Murdoch want it , it's that somebody has had the audacity to say he can't have it.
As far as a Murdoch ownership of the Wall Street Journal is concerned, I've never been a fan of the paper's editorial line and therefore get a certain amount of glee that the Wall Street Journal may become the possession of the tabloid king. I know there are discussions on "fire-walling" the editorial page from Murdoch misuse, but once this Media Don owns the paper he will do with it what he wants, to be sure. Maybe Murdoch does have a practical purpose in acquiring WSJ, in having a sense that ownership of the Wall Street Journal will bring credibility to some of the other media garbage he owns, but in reality the Wall Street Journal, with the change of ownership, will in an instant lose the credibility it has built up over the last 118 years. But Murdoch is probably blind to that fact, and only cares that he will have his "precious" and the Wall Street Journal will join the News Corp playpen.
As an aside, I'm thinking that the sale of the paper will be announced on July 8th, the anniversary of the Wall Street Journal's founding, or maybe July 7th if Murdoch is still on Australian time.
The grave state of American Journalism won't be corrected by the blocking of this sale, but maybe it will expand, by the number of subscribers of the Wall Street Journal, the individuals who believe that there is a problem in the current state of American media ownership that needs to be addressed.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Paris Hilton - Eloi on the Menu
Paris Hilton is an Eloi.
"The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine. In the year AD 802,701 humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are the spoiled, attractive upper class, living in luxury on the surface of the earth while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing and infrastructure for the Eloi."
As you can guess, if Paris is an Eloi then the rest of us must be Morlocks.
" ...while the Morlocks continue to support the world's infrastructure and serve the Eloi, the Eloi have undergone significant physical and mental deterioration. Having solved all problems which required strength, intelligence or virtue, they have slowly become dissolute, frail animals. While one initially has the impression that the Eloi live a life of play and toil less abundance, it is revealed that the Morlocks are tending to the Eloi's needs for the same reason a farmer tends to cattle - because the Eloi compose most (if not all) of the Morlocks diet and the Eloi are no longer capable of acting in any other role than to be eaten by the morlocks"
While certainly I don't think anyone would want to substitute Paris for some other protein in their current diet, there is definitely consumption of Paris Hilton taking place amongst we Morlocks. On a day when the Senate issued long overdue subpoenas to the White House, the Vice President's office and the Justice Department regarding the domestic wiretapping transgressions, CNN gifted us with hours of coverage of our sweet little Eloi.
We also learned how we Morlocks consume our little Eloi through tabloids, and porn sites, and appearance payments, and crappy music, and her half wit reality show ... We Morlocks feast so, on this little Eloi, that she can afford to be marginally educated and talentless, eye candy.
I'd continue but I am so full of Paris at this point I need some Mylanta.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi
"The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine. In the year AD 802,701 humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are the spoiled, attractive upper class, living in luxury on the surface of the earth while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing and infrastructure for the Eloi."
As you can guess, if Paris is an Eloi then the rest of us must be Morlocks.
" ...while the Morlocks continue to support the world's infrastructure and serve the Eloi, the Eloi have undergone significant physical and mental deterioration. Having solved all problems which required strength, intelligence or virtue, they have slowly become dissolute, frail animals. While one initially has the impression that the Eloi live a life of play and toil less abundance, it is revealed that the Morlocks are tending to the Eloi's needs for the same reason a farmer tends to cattle - because the Eloi compose most (if not all) of the Morlocks diet and the Eloi are no longer capable of acting in any other role than to be eaten by the morlocks"
While certainly I don't think anyone would want to substitute Paris for some other protein in their current diet, there is definitely consumption of Paris Hilton taking place amongst we Morlocks. On a day when the Senate issued long overdue subpoenas to the White House, the Vice President's office and the Justice Department regarding the domestic wiretapping transgressions, CNN gifted us with hours of coverage of our sweet little Eloi.
We also learned how we Morlocks consume our little Eloi through tabloids, and porn sites, and appearance payments, and crappy music, and her half wit reality show ... We Morlocks feast so, on this little Eloi, that she can afford to be marginally educated and talentless, eye candy.
I'd continue but I am so full of Paris at this point I need some Mylanta.
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eloi
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