THE JOY OF BLOGGING OPINION and DAILY MAIL UK - and MAIL ON LINE - AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN BIAS and DISRESPECT OF PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN , THE KARDASHIANS, HARRY AND MEGHAN (2)

About the KARDASHIAN SISTERS and their other mother,  which does tie into HARRY AND MEGHAN.

You see, most of the articles in Daily Mail UK - MAIL ON LINE are desperate to go against Harry and Meghan, and that's easy because it seems like Harry and Meghan have gone against Harry and Meghan.

Applying British notions to this couple, their choice in INTERIOR DECOR AND FURNITURE has even been attacked by an opinion personality at Daily Mail UK - MAIL ON LINE.  So to set the record straight, their home is a California home, a home that is in the sunshine and weather of Southern California. I don't know anyone here who wants to live in an interior that looks like it's in England, where is is mostly colder, rainier, darker, and where many people are living in housing so old and decaying it would get the wrecking ball here. 

The closest to stereotypical British décor I've ever seen in Southern California is in homes where the owners like antiques and clutter their spaces with them, including paintings and art all over the walls, and the use of dark paint or wallcoverings that give a cave-like experience. Our weather is better, we spend more time outdoors and don't seem to be so home bound as those who live in the colder, rainier, and older areas of the country.  There is a more casual attitude about the use of homes in general when you're tracking in sand and fine soil. 

On it goes, but the thing that has taken up so much media space, that has pitted the couple against the Royal Family in the media, is that someone yet to be disclosed had the nerve to wonder what skin color their children would have.

I'm going to state the obvious.  This kind of wondering is NOT in itself any evidence of bigotry, prejudice, or anti-Black or anti-White sentiment and it takes someone really looking for shit to find it in that wondering.  This kind of wondering is NOT something just people with "White" skin do.  This kind of wondering and acknowledgement of a range of skin colors as possible even links into why some Black people name their children to honor their skin color such as Ebony, Amber, and even Snow.  And I, and just about everyone I know has wondered about the range of skin colors of the White hued Kardashian sisters children who have been begot with Black hued men. It's why people for generations have looked at newborns and declared who they look like!  People don't just comment on skin color, they comment on hair, and eye color, and toes and noses.  It's just curiosity and most often in it is found beauty.

Further, if we go back a bit, we learn that Princess Diana has a "person of color" in her heritage as well, that person having been born of India, so red headed, blue eyed Harry is not 100% White.  In fact he has "one drop" of East Asian.

No, if there is any weirdness at all, it is the way some cultures or subcultures claim a person as theirs over "one drop."  We are all amazed at the advances in DNA testing and the acknowledgement that humans over generations have traveled, collided with other cultures, and mixed up their genetics, be that by loving consensual relationships or rape. Rape being the horror it is since forever, I wonder where aspects of my own DNA came in and maybe it was the 12th century.

This curiosity about skin color was once extended to the singer-dancer Michael Jackson and his children, be they begot with the woman he married or not, and still is.

I have no idea which Royal actually SAID something that might be construed as bigotry over what was probably curiosity, but I can bet it was a common curiosity, stated or not, of them all as well as that of the public. So if I were asked, and I won't be, I would advise Harry and Meghan to drop it, to not make an International case for bigotry over it.  

An example would be Prince Albert II of Monaco and his son with African born Nicole Coste, with whom he had a long romantic relationship with, they being in the news lately as their son, who appears "mixed," reaches the age of 18.  Albert is not apologizing, he's recognizing. The media condemnation that is difficult and abusive is the suggestion that he only married his wife, Princess Charlene, for her biology, as someone who might look more like his mother and keep their Mediterranean heritage more on the Nordic side.

Americans understand Harry's need and Meghan's, to be independent and earn their own living, pay back their debts, and to find usefulness and happiness in their lives. The transition into Americanism is a more difficult one for Harry, who is out of his element and who was raised to not give any opinions at all.  He has to suffer being made the target of insults just like our President Joseph Biden does from Daily Mail UK - MAIL ON LINE.  However, dropping the use of titles while in America is the American thing to do.  The British Press needs to keep the titles of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

There is so much need out there, who can condemn anyone who is attempting to make service to society their reason for being?

C 2021 Christine Trzyna

THE JOY OF BLOGGING OPINION and DAILY MAIL UK - and MAIL ON LINE - AN AMERICAN REPUBLICAN BIAS and DISRESPECT OF PRESIDENT JOSEPH BIDEN , THE KARDASHIANS, HARRY AND MEGHAN (1)

One of the joys of blogging is being able to express your opinion, especially as it's not the prevailing popular opinion.  That said, I confessed that during Covid, I got hooked on the publication out of Great Britain called DAILY MAIL - UK, also known as MAIL ON LINE, which is full of opinions, and opinions by British people who do not even live in the Unites States about American politics. (It seems to me there is an overlap of articles but I haven't checked - it would be a never ending task.) I'm in the process of getting un-hooked by using my knowledge of the reputation of other publications to chose which ones I read on line.  Also, this publication is a TABLOID, yet it's too bad, because some decent journalism and journalistic photography does get lost in the mix.

Here is how I got hooked.

I got into the important news story of Edward Snowden's disappearance into the airport in Moscow and thought the Daily Mail coverage was quite good. Prior to this I was not at all hooked on any news story.  

The Daily Mail format is that it almost appears a jumble of articles, and there is a repetition of articles, so basically your eyes go over articles you might not otherwise read, searching for ones you are interested in and it works like getting caught in a maze; you loose time.

Through Covid I began checking Daily Mail repeatedly, way too much.  I own this.  I've never applied to be interrupted by news by any news outlet so I do not use apps or sign up to be alerted.  I was compelled to interrupt my own thoughts by checking the news.  At some point, I realized that my interested in Covid and all that was happening due to the disease was more important to me than Edward Snowden or the issue of us being spied upon my our government or lied upon by our government when it was about national security.  Both Covid and national security are about our survival.

Lately I've realized just how biased the choice of articles and how not journalistic many of the HEADLINES at Daily Mail UK - Mail On Line are. The headlines and articles are usually uncomplimentary to President Joseph Biden, and disrespectful to start by not using the title President. To me, a country that is obsessed with titles, the publication starts their disrespect by refusing to use the person's title.  This would be like calling Queen Elizabeth, Liz, Queenie, or Lilibet.  For years Kate was used instead of Catherine, and to this day the Princess, who goes by Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, as married to Prince William, who goes by the Duke of Cambridge, is referred to as Kate Middleton. The press is making her earn her title long after the Royal Family did.

Is the Daily Mail UK - MAIL ON LINE referring to people incorrectly to save space?  They are not.  Daily Mail sometimes runs titles that pretty much tell the whole article or they used the same text beneath a picture that they use in the article so there is no space saving motive to not use titles.

There fails to be a mention in articles that read against President Joseph Biden that the Afghanistan war/problem goes back four Presidential administrations.  Therefore these articles are not historically correct or making an attempt to be historically correct.

Daily Mail UK is read by many a Republican husband of Democratic friends of mine and they are the type to basically look for the cheese-cake - the sexual photos of the Kardashians and other desperate-for-attention celebrities who show off their bodies and post selfies or other photos that sometimes are porn. Church on Sunday and then the cheese-cake. There is never an equivalent photo run of males.  I have no idea if males try to appear in the publication or are refused by a decision maker at the publication.

At the time that I began to loose time to Daily Mail UK - MAIL ON LINE , I didn't know who the Kardashians were.  I heard of them but could not name the sisters. (Now I can and find them of interest due to their presence in pop culture, but I still have never seen any of their reality shows nor do I intend to and I'm critical of them.)

Our President, whoever it is, should be referred to as President Joseph Biden or President Biden, not Joe, not Biden, and not "Sleepy Joe" a derogatory term that the bombastic President Donald Trump started, that only belongs in quotes attributed to him.  The use of this term otherwise by any media is an attack.

C 2021 Christine Trzyna

THE JOY OF FINDING TYPOS AND SPELLING ERRORS ON THE INTERNET by CHRISTINE TRZYNA

THE JOY OF FINDING TYPOS AND SPELLING ERRORS ON THE INTERNET by CHRISTINE TRZYNA

I remember back when I had to type on a typewriter for a short fiction class I was taking at a local community college at night.  Oh I loved that class most of the time.  I really worked hard at that class.  I enjoyed reading and critiquing other people's work and usually I enjoyed reading what other people (characters) had to say about my submissions.  There were a few stinkers in that class.  Mostly self righteous with the tweedy jackets and elbow patches and pipes of the east coast though this is California or some such thing.

It was all supposed to be anonymous but let's face it, some of us became visible nervous wrecks hearing other people talk about our work which was telling.  I tended to bounce my foot.

So one time I submitted a story and the worst critique of it was that I had spelled a word wrong - the same word repeatedly.

I don't know about you but I have about a half dozen words that somehow got into my brain spelled wrong and to this day I struggle to spell them right, and so I use spell check to catch these words.

Well, I was a bit embarrassed but more THE ENTIRE STORY WAS DISMISSED as WORTHLESS because of my spelling error.  What about the content?  The theme?  The dialogue?

So these days, I read more on the Internet, and I notice lots of spelling errors that Internet Journalists did not have the time to notice.  My guess is the race for beating deadlines or competiting with other journalists to submit is the real cause.  Still I take joy in finding those mistakes.  AND I KNOW THAT THE CONTENT IS STILL IMPORTANT as is the CREATIVITY and the RESEARCH and the INTERVIEWING and all else that makes a story great!

INTERNET JOURNALISTS PIGGYBACKING COVERAGE ON THE MISSONI MYSTERY : INACCURATE HEADLINES : LAZY JOURNALISTS

LAZY JOURNALISTS PIGGYBACKING COVERAGE ON THE MISSONI MYSTERY : INACCURATE HEADLINES : UNTOLD STORY

By Christine Trzyna

Once in a while I get hooked on a news story and follow it closely. 

Recently I started reading everything I could find on the MISSONI MYSTERY.  

As a recap, on about January 3rd/4th 2013, a small plane carrying the so called "iconic" Vittorio Missoni and five others disappeared in a cloud not long after take-off from a resort island off the coast of Venezuela.   Missoni has been the world brand ambassador of this family owned Milan, Italy,  fashion house which began about a half century ago and has had great impact on the design of knits and fashion.  Though not inexpensive,  in the last year they made a deal with Target and the less expensive products were sold out so very quickly and started appearing on e-Bay for more than they were priced.  This is how well loved the designs the Missoni family makes are!

Not one article I read suggested that a fashion house enemy or perhaps the Italian Mafia were involved but I wondered.  When the children of the presumed dead began to reach out to (unnamed) enemies and Twitter for help to find their parents, I really wanted more story.  The idea of kidnapping was mentioned but hey, no mention of a ransom asked for. 

Cell phone "anomalies" indicated that calls were sent from cell phones that would be underwater unless the passengers and plane had been hijacked by drug dealers, which apparently happens a whole lot in the area. Venezuela denied this as a possibility. 

Just the cell phone anomaly story had me hooked and for days I watched the press for some explanation, which to this point I have not found.  I tried to research this myself.  How long can a cell phone withstand being underwater?  Friends said some models can work though they have fallen in a swimming pool or toilet, but not thousands of feet under the sea. 

I read dozens of articles that piggybacked on others, looking for the original source or the best source for information. 

Then began, it turns out an inaccurate report that the pilot was not licenced. Even when this proved to be untrue it continued to be reported.  I checked the publishing dates and there are a whole lot of so called journalists who should be ashamed of themselves.  Are these journalists even researching, asking questions, or just reading each others articles and using new, inaccurate words as well as information over and over again for a month now? 

The pilot was healthy, licenced, and well regarded in the area. 

A fellow pilot thought maybe a thunderbolt felled the plane!

In the last few days it was revealed that a sports bag was found a couple hundred miles away from where the search had centered.  It had been stowed away on the plane the Missoni party hired because there wasn't enough room on another plane.  Nowhere in the press have I read that this sports bag was empty, wet, full of sand, found on a beach.  The word ROCKS was used.  It was apparently in good enough condition that the German Tourist who found it took it home and contacted the owner because the name tag inside was still intact.  (Would you take home a soakinig wet empty bag?

Lazy journalists and HEADLINE WRITERS, started reporting this single sports bag as "Missoni Luggage" and "First Debris" of the plane!  I see no reason to speculate like that in a journalistic article.

In dozens of articles journalists are confused as to whether the woman Missoni was traveling with was his "Wife," "Life-Partner," or "Companion." Apparently their relationship is so secret dspite the international fame of Vittorio that journalists can't find a marriage license, church record, or ask the family, before publishing.


It is a MYSTERY as to why no bodies, no luggage, no  nothing - but the sports bag - has made its way up and over the sea after a month.  Theories are that the plane is so far down that it cannot be detected by the usual means and so the family, Italy, and Venezuela have sent a submarine to look around the sea floor. 

The sports bag found on rocks in good enough condition has lead the search to 200 miles away, perhaps the flotsam and jetsam moved with fast tides.

Meanwhile, as the show must go on, you can see the spring Missoni show that took place for Fashion Week in Milan recently on YouTube.  However, you will be very lucky to find any speculation in the press on what the Missoni family's plan is if, indeed Vittorio is dead.  I can understand, given the problems with the plane crash theory, the family is hesitating to be conclusive!

Meanwhile it is clear to me that in order to be FAST about POSTING AN ARTICLE / DEADLINE PRESSURE, accuracy is no longer a consideration!

C Christine Trzyna 2013  All Rights Reserved including Internet and International Rights.