Tune In, Turn On
As Al-Jazeera gears up to launch the international English-language branch of its network, we hear that some Canadians have been hired on. One of them is Richard Gizbert, who was fired by ABC in London for refusing to go to Iraq to cover the war because he has a family he actually cares about and didn't want to die. Go figure.Now Gizbert is the kind of giant-balled iconoclast I'd want working for me if I was putting together a news outlet that George Bush and all his tiny-testicled neo-con jackasses already despise. Let's just hope the CRTC doesn't render Al-Jazeera totally impotent in Canada, like they tried to do last time they applied for a broadcast licence here.
Not holding my breath though, with Herr Harper decreeing what everyone should see and hear these days. Although, I guess we should be thankful he's looking out for us. Otherwise, we might chose media outlets that provide us with the news equivalent of popcorn and beer. And that's what Canadians voted against in the last election. Right?
posted by K-Dough at 10:02 AM
46 Comments:
It's amazing to me, that in '06, many powers-that-be still want everybody to believe that the world's issues are black and white.
(And I was hoping the world would be one nation and we'd all be getting around on giant conveyor belts by now.)
During the 80s- even though I was a long haired headbanger- I spent a lot of time sitting reading social philosophy, smoking dope, drinking coffee and listening to Weather Report. The threat of M.A.D and nuclear proliferation permeated our stressed out teen existences at that point and we were forced to think about he future of the human race. (In fact, one of the poignant 'modern' books I read at the time was Michael Ignatief's treatise the Needs of Strangers- check it out!.
People were actually thinking about Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations, and how his original dream could inspire the UN into becoming a sort of world government. The Global Village weas becomingh more than a McLuhan paradigm for media studies.
What the fuck has happened? The right wing and Christian fundamentalist movement in the West, and the continuance of the US to play spheres of influence games in geo-politics has destroyed that kind of thinking. It's needs to be rebuilt. Quickly.
Hopefully Al-Jazeera, once it is up and running, can provide a window on the world that the mass mainstream media in NA is currently not providing.
Cross your testicles.
lether- and by the way- whatever media pundits try to tell you about CNN et al pushing the limits and holding the goverment accountable don't believe it for a second.
The US govt did what Harper is trying to do now ages ago, and for the most part, the MSM is nothing but a fucking megaphone for gov't manufactured message. It's because they have been conditioned by government and corporate communications professionals to dumb everything down - not because the public demands facile reporting.
god and fate? those were your first mistakes...
Are you serious, K-dough?About God and fate, I mean.
And how is your tattoo?
K-Dough,
I heard that Herr Harper is considering new policy to prohibit bloggers from commenting on federal policy decisions. I also understand he's sanctioned the arrest of bloggers who make fun of him.
I've already gone into hiding because I, one time, suggested he and Bush should have been the ones in Mexico to get their throats slit...
I imagine you should take cover too.
Apparantly the new SS is looking for a guy with brilcreamed hair, who drinks beer with little Canadian flags flying around his head.
Harding- The dirty buggers will neva find me, and if they do, they'll neva take me alive !
Pam- hurts. But it's sweet pain.
I am serious. I belive in faith. Faith personified in whatever entity you choose. I prefer the Buddhist imagery myself.
Fate? Nuh uh.
Good reply. I've seen many people "at the end" with no faith, and it's very sad.
I think we make our own fate.
And there is some brill-creamed guy hiding under my desk. He smells like beer and cheap aftershave.
Pam- how did Ernies Eves get under your desk???????????
J-Dog: Correct. There is bias and judgement intrinsic in all human communication. I am just hoping that this network will bring a fresh, culturally diverse perspective.
How many times do I have to tell you kiddies that Brascan is running this country? How in the fuck do you think the Brascan Baby got to be Harper's Communications chief? K-Dough, take a walk down to 181 Bay Street and see the shit eating grin on Senator Eyton's face. For those of you who have the research capability, check out the number of government contracts Brascan and its subsidaries have, both federal and provincial, in agriculture, light and power, banking, relocations, shipping(in conjunction with CSL).
Now you see why I wear a suicide belt!
hard core eh? I guess that makes you a fundamentalist as well then Freddy...
K-Dough, what a shame you wasted your sharp mind in the Eighties. (The listening to Weather Report part....)
OT: Don't you love how it takes a City Councillor getting a bottle in the head (thrown by a bum) to get them to do anything about the aggressive beggars everywhere in this city (T.O.)?
The rest of us can be intimidated and subjected to abuse for years and nothing is done.
But one bum hits a hump Councillor with a bottle because the guy ignored his demand for money... and the lawmakers set their sights on panhandlers.
Gets you thinking... How do we set these gangstas with guns on a judge's kid?
Too bad it has to hit close to home for these putzes before they raise a finger to help the rest of us. But whatever works.
leather- what's wrong with Weather Report dude? And you call yourself a muso- shame!
Total joke dude. Chester's one of my heroes.
What's an Echo? You wear a suit????? Chester the Molester?
K-Dough,
1) A chick-magnet (especially with the booster seats in the back)
2) Yes, the free Hugo Boss collection they gave me for modelling same. (Only seen in underground tranny publications.)
3)Uhh...I think I don't get it, but... Chester Thompson played on a couple of WR waxings.
I like men in suits. The only suits that my husband will wear are of the "sweat" variety.
Pam- lol!!!!!!!!!
I was chastized by my wife the other day for wearing too many articles of clothing with "skulls" on them. Of course, those are my weekend and away from work clothes.
By day, however, I am sleek, chic, modern and perma-pressed. And I smell good and my nails are exquisitely manicured as well!
leather- uhhh, yer a model? That's like- uhhhhh- cool dude. I bet you get lots of chicks and stuff eh?
Pam, your hubby must constantly be in a sweat when he's around you.
Yes K-dough,
I've had a lot of modelling success in the "sex change makeover" world. (You can see how your mangina comment hit close to home, and hurt me deeply.)
Oh yeah, I get lots of...uhh.."chicks".
Skull clothing isn't so bad. We have a friend that exclusively wears the Free In Beer Boxes line of clothing.That's a difficult look to pull off.
"Free In Beer Boxes line of clothing"
You are fucking killing me today chickie!
Pam's on fire! When you're this sharp, does it mean you're having a really good day, or a really shit day?
I'm sharp like a rusty tin top.
Why do we do that?
Because someone has to touch 'em! Might as well be someone who knows how to work one.
Oops- did that sound a little bitter?
Pam,
I've been observing my son in that respect; it started at about three years of age. It is unavoidable apparently.
I've managed to stop, but I have other things to distract me. (The ever present golf-ball sized hemmorhoid on my ass, for example.)
It's quite different when women do it, though.It's very distracting to men watching the game.
Pam,
its to remind us of our power.
you know, after you watch a team absolutely outclass another team. kill off a 4 minute penalty and have the best scoring chances in said 4 minute penalty. get no 4 minute penalty for blinding our captain.
all that, and you lose the game?
before you feel impotent and powerless, the hand drops down and reminds you - you still have it.
or should I say, IT.
Leather- "golf-ball sized hemmorhoid"- nice!
Is yours pierced? I find it adds to the aesthetic beauty of the hemmorhoid.
And by hte way- you people are evil: Taking a good current topic like the one I posted about today, then baiting me with sex talk, and thus, ending up here. Again.
In Canada.
In a blog.
We're not making this up.
K-Dough LOL!
I remember one of Lee Aaron's drummers (the name escapes me) would have tremendous hemmorhoid problems, and would stuff a piece of bum-wad in his ass covered with cream before every show. he called it a "sphincter doiley". (sp?)
AH, it's sad. We always end up in this place at 3:30 in the afternoon.
leather,
My son had his hand on it when he was in a diaper. I just thought he had learned from the master.
Oh, and sorry about your loss (Habs) last night..I agree, CC. Unfair calls.
Randy?
K-Dough,
That's your fault. I can't help myself. You're the master of the x-rated retort.
But he's not the Master of his Domain.
No, not the Cooke man. It's making me crazy now...
Pam- no I am not.
leather- older guy?
Hey, Learherhands,.... remember Sam Cooke? Now there was an entertainert!
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I figured it out.
OT: Christ, I wish I had TIVO.
Before I could change the channel (after the hockey), the CBC news came on and Terry Miliewefskyefsky did a story about evil Stephen settling the softwood lumber mess.
It had it all.
Dalton McGuinty saying that it's a good deal... Emerson and Harper looking like heroes.... and the coup de gras... Bill Graham in the House saying Harper has sold everyone down the river, with Belindabeast in the background rolling her eyes as he's talking... looking like she had a mouthful of poop.
Good times.
Ahh yes Squid,
Sam Cooke laid the foundation for all R&B singers. I love all those groundbreakers. Speaking of groundbreakers, I was at a drum clinic recently and watched some old footage of the Buddy Rich orchestra.
The general consesus was "we are just drummers, Buddy was a musician."
Amen to that K-Dough,
Problem these days is that anyone with an decent pro-tools library of drum samples can sound pretty good too.
We old-school drummers can probably thank grunge music for preventing our extinction. There's an appreciative audience out there again.
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