...Tempus Fugit While Farkin'...

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Miles Davis
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The Essential Miles Davis (2001)
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Tempus Fugit

...hey there MOG...been keepin' your powder dry and the wind at your back? Hey, you lookin' kinda different...you been workin' out or something? it's all good...I thought I'd holla as I was feeling this Miles Davis cut while typing some CoR shite up-- I guess because sometimes you need to put on the big, bullshit detecting glasses, kinda like the ones the angel of darkness is wearing in the pic above...a month-and-change ago I was listening to a radio interview with Drew Curtis the guy who started a Web site to throw funny shite on for his friends far and wide to check...this was back in 1997...as it turns out the word "fark" was actually a "non-term" and didn't mean anything initially but since then, the 24-hour news cycle has made it almost requisite for a lot of "non-information" to make it into the nation's daily intake of news coverage (why everyone knows, in nuanced detail, about how much money a presidential hopeful spends on a haircut, but couldn't tell you who's their representative in the Senate or Congress...this is the site's mascot...

...so, what set me off? The "newsflash" I heard yesterday that, based on a newly released report from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the number of people in fatal accidents on the nation's roads dropped 2% (the largest such decrease in nearly 15 years)...as I sat there waiting for the obvious to be pointed out (that gas is so expensive that less people are on the roads...more and more people are using discretion when taking trips in their hoopty...it was never even touched...the story even took a grim twist as the top 'o the hour newsguy wrapped the segment up by announcing-- "*continued here*":http://chronicridicule.blogspot.com/2007/07/fark-you-too-how-mass-media-tries-to.html

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nicki says Somehow I keep forgetting how the LA Times is trumping our East Coast stalwarts when it comes to bona fide news and investigations. I've been checking out the Guardian - on Jello Biafra's recommendation, no less - and will be adding the Times to my morning reading routine. But, yeah, those statistics seem pretty meaningless compared to "mentally-ill prisoners dying from neglect":http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20070725_Lapses_blamed_in_death_of_inmate.html and "14 year-olds on bikes getting gunned down":http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_left_story/20070725_Anguished_farewell_for_a_boy_shot_at_play.html. God bless Amurrika.

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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kat3260 says Man, I was watching CNN yesterday during my lunch break, and right after the Lindsay Lohan arrest stories, one of the top stories was how a West Virginia eatery had "invented" a giant pizza sized hamburger that you could buy for like $35. Meanwhile, real news isn't getting reported and most people just blindly trust the media to tell them what is important. I've been guilty of that until the past few years myself. Thanks for the links - I've been aching for something to help cut through the clutter.

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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deadmandeadman says And people wonder why. We're stuck with broadcast networks that fall just to the right of Castro, a boatload of CNN's and MSNBC's and such on the cable, who wouldn't know an objective viewpoint unless Hugo Chavez pointed it out, and one conservative cable station just to the left of Patton. The "news" of the 'cycle' comes at us spinning faster than Bill Clinton's head at a beauty peagent. We're stuck here, where the rain is real. We try to balance the intake. Some of us do. Others believe evrything that fits their mindset, their world view, and dismiss the rest. Our government is based on having an informed electorate. During the democrat's debate the other night, (I know we all watched, right?) Joe Biden belittled a gun owner for no other reason than the man asked what the candidates' position on gun control is. He called into qustion the man's emotional and psychological fitness, BECAUSE HE BELIEVES IN THE SECOND AMENDMENT. The crowd applauded Biden's affrontery! Why did this not make the news? Oh I forgot, Lindsey Lohan, that's right. Idiote Moi. I have had more than a half dozen MOGS tell me that FOX news is right-wing propaganda. I was impressed, after all, those are big words for pinheads.

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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CrashPryor says @nicki: that's going to be changing real soon...I was checking a little symposium on the radio chat forum Zocalo a few weeks ago (scroll down to the "*July 8th broadcast*":http://www.zocalola.org/radio.html ) and gears are gonna switch up over at LAT, too.... @katrina: it's all good and you know you're very welcome (check the one in the comment to nicki above too)... @deadman: SO, what're you saying?...No, really..."I have had more than a half dozen MOGS tell me that FOX news is right-wing propaganda. I was impressed, after all, those are big words for pinheads."...I that I didn't "Captain Obvious" out on you that haphazardly...I'm in a lively little 'bout of back-and-forth' on my Multiply, if you have one, hit me up via MogMail...you'd fit right in..."comes at us spinning faster than Bill Clinton’s head at a beauty peagent." now THAT is funny...gonna use that somewhere else...YOINK...

Permalink posted 07/25/2007
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avenustylee says Would you call me an idjut if I said good music helps clear my head of the frenzy of the media circus?

Permalink posted 07/26/2007
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Charley Rogulewski says I love the mascot. He brings a new meaning to the idea of "a squirrel gathering nuts." I too can't agree more with how all news is crap these days. It seems people are turning to the media outlets that poke fun at newstainment (i.e. Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Colbert Report) for the real unbiased news. Is this the new news of the new millenium? I mean...

Permalink posted 07/26/2007
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contrabandwidth says I'd love to see more people ride bikes, and I believe they would if we had cities that had safe bike paths. Most of the bike path's I see are in with the traffic, where over in a place like Amsterdam they are separated from the road a good deal. Nobody likes playing dodge the idiot on the cell phone when riding a bike. While I agree with what you say about the news, I also believe (network news) that it is distilled from what we want to see as viewers. We support the advertisers, the networks do their research and put it on accordingly. That's why the net is great, cuz you can get it the way you want it. TV news needs to be sensational because they are losing eyeballs by the minute. The major media outlet press let the country down after 9/11 and questions were not asked and Bush moved into supreme power without a struggle or fight. The media should have been on this from minute 1, and they weren't, and we suffer because of it. They only changed their tone after the last election, and by then it was too late. It will take at least the next 3 presidential terms to clean up everything the Bush presidency has fucked up. Sad, really.

Permalink posted 07/26/2007
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MilesTrane says the typical media news broadcast lost me long ago - i just get angry with the lack of both factual info and precise language. the newsertainment is sickening really. where is the sense of authenticity? what happened to our standards? is this an inevitable process in a capitalistic society? and where the hell can I get me some shades like Miles has?

Permalink posted 07/28/2007