I'm trying to remember how it is that I got addicted to reading DAILY MAIL UK. It's been a while now since I started reading it. It might have been about the time I was having withdrawal from the end of Art Bell's second or third incarnation, his long awaited but brief MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT show. I believe it had to do with trying to read around EDWARD SNOWDEN and JULIAN ASSANGE. These men and those like them are important to the question we need to ask, and that is the role of journalists and journalism in society, in a time of fake news (sorry to say there really is a lot of it) and skepticism. Though sometimes DAILY MAIL UK gets it wrong, more often they get it right and their news breaks across the ocean first, meaning that by the time you get up to listen to KFI and the obnoxiously funny BILL HANDLE well, you will already know what news they are going to be mentioning on the radio as you sit in traffic on the freeway because it sounds to be right out of DAILY MAIL UK! You know that because you checked when you got up to pee at 3 am.
Currently I barely read about Snowden, who I actually feel has had his Andy Warhol Fifteen Minutes of fame over and over again and will live out his life in Russia. He raised his finger in that ayatollah kind of way and I thought, this is not good! I suspect Assange and WikiLeaks is going to be story for a long long time, unless he dies, and I think he might. He's being made an example of. Got to give Snowden credit for years of faithfulness to his pole dancing exhibitionist girlfriend; there's someone for everyone?
I don't feel so bad about the way I have to hit the DAILY MAIL UK site at least twice a day - sometimes more - sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night - yesterday every hour - when I hear that it's the second most read news media site in the world.
I don't know what media site is supposed to be number one. I kind of hope The New York Times. I read the San Jose Mercury News... I read The Guardian... I read Vanity Fair.
I currently make dog poo bags from the LA TIMES though yes, it does have some good coverage. I hear it's printed with soy based ink and I'm just so eco. I have respect for journalist Steve Lopez there, who I feel sure already has his private island estate in heaven being built by the angels.
LINK HERE TO A JOURNALIST I RESPECT STEVE LOPEZ He will not quit writing about our housing and homeless crisis.
So, about DAILY MAIL UK; I know some of you are disappointed in me for this, but I'm not alone in making my way past the Kardashians, who I knew nothing about when I started reading it, and so many other desperate-for-attention women showing off their bodies in swim suits, if you can identify these strained patches of fabric as such, who take pouty selfies of themselves using mirrors to look down their own pants, to some terrific coverage of what we used to call HARD NEWS, such as the hideous Jeffery Epstein Sex Trafficking scandal. And the Miley Cyrus scandal, a trivial bisexual fling of a scandal which, when it comes right down to it, has not an iota of impact compared to what the now dead sex addict Epstein's scandal will.
I really CAN be LITERARY and also be into POP CULTURE.
DAILY MAIL UK also promises daily coverage of VIOLENCE, from gross pimple popper videos to mass shootings, mothers who put babies they just gave birth to in dumpsters and people who put their dogs in freezers, innocent people wrongly convicted and criminals running free, boating and helicopter accidents, riots in front of movie theaters and more seriously in Hong Kong, wackos gone crazy and crazies gone wacko, every form of violence.
I'M OVEREXPOSED TO VIOLENCE.
I don't want to be ill informed or ignorant.
I want to understand.
I feel stress.
I am anxious.
I feel overloaded.
It feels hopeless.
WE NEED HELP.
Can the Republicans find ANYONE to run against TRUMP? Can the Democrats who refused to eat some form of Pig in IOWA or who actually do not have a realistic PLAN for how this Reparations thing will work (I suggest national DNA tests) please step out of the race for the Presidency.
Go Bernie Go!
Sometimes I feel like imploding or exploding.
You might too.
Just don't do it all over my blog.
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Showing posts with label Julian Assange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Julian Assange. Show all posts
4/17/18
JULIAN ASSANGE HAS STILL NOT CRACKED UP
I don't know about you, but I've been following the Julian Assange Ordeal/Case/Travesty for five years and while I have mixed thoughts and feelings about the man, Wikileaks, rape accusations, and even Vegetarian Pam's visits over there to Julian in London, I'm still not bored.
Anyone who has ever studied Journalism or who is watching the demise of paper books and paper news can't help but be fascinated by someone who calls Journalism "Transparency" ; is nothing private?
The thing that now fascinates me the MOST is that the man still has not cracked up, though I think there are lots of people who wish he would. He seems to have been made into an example to the world; see what will happen to you if you go against us and have strong opinions or openly publish our personal business! (One of the things you learn in Journalism at college is that private persons are not news unless they are involved in something exceptional. Public personalities have far less privacy.) Of course, he is actually NOT BEING HELD AGAINST HIS WILL. It is his will to evade arrest, if not for rape then some other crime, BY NOT WALKING THE HELL OUT OF THERE!
If you've read hundreds of articles about Julian in the embassy as I have, then you know that he is not well physically. He has less movement freedom than someone in a typical jail where they get to go out into the yard for exercise and sunlight for an hour a day.
As for his vitamin e deficiencies from lack of sunlight, there are those who say to go get a sunlamp (we think they mean full spectrum,) or some daily multiple vitimins. Can't a dentist visit him and pull that tooth?
Recently Assange was cut off from using the Internet by his Ecuadorian hosts because they fear that his OPINIONS will cause economic difficulties for their country's business and relationships with other countries. (Can't they do a disclaimer such as THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY JULIAN ASSANGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF HIS HOSTS?) WORSE, he is really going to feel his isolation because he is also NO LONGER ALLOWED TO HAVE LIVE VISITS FROM ANYONE. (Can you even imagine what Vegetarian Pam will be wearing when she talks to some FBI agent in a raincoat?)
While the room in the embassy that he dwells in (with, perhaps, some privileges to walk the hall, use the bathroom, do some interviews in another room) is really is small, he was able to go through the window of the Internet into other worlds. Basically he is going to crack up and then maybe he will, when not in his right mind, walk on out, to handcuffs and photographers.
I am feeling his isolation because I'm a person who can't really stand to be indoors in a room in a house or a small apartment for more than a week. OK, I have once for sure, possibly twice, CHOSEN not to leave for a week or so because I was in a very deep zone of concentration and writing. I remained in flow for hours at a time, went to sleep, woke up in flow. It is possible. It is productive. But you could end up with carpal tunnel from a marathon typing session and you should have gone to the grocer and stocked up before you try it. Getting out into the sunlight and air is important to me.
There is one thing worse than being trapped in a place and that is being trapped in a body. I am no Steven Hawkings; let me die. I will not acclimate. I will be miserable. I will go insane if I have to be a conscious in a body I cannot control. Don't tell me about people who typed novels using a stylus attached to their nose.
If Assange has not yet cracked up officially, and maybe he is typing away in there without being able to post, if he continues to be isolated from all human contact but for the embassy staff, they are going to have worse problems than him not bathing or his going berserkers and trashing the room. (Both which have been reported though where's the proof? Tall book shelves have been known to detach from walls and when you no longer know for sure WHAT TIME IT IS, you may get off schedule when it comes to showers.)
I feel sorry enough for him as a human that I want to imagine that Vegetarian Pam and he have had their way with each other. I know he is pale and pasty, but this is a man who likes to dance to Rave Music and is no innocent when it comes to seduction. Why not?
C Christine Trzyna 2018 Al Rights Reserved
Anyone who has ever studied Journalism or who is watching the demise of paper books and paper news can't help but be fascinated by someone who calls Journalism "Transparency" ; is nothing private?
The thing that now fascinates me the MOST is that the man still has not cracked up, though I think there are lots of people who wish he would. He seems to have been made into an example to the world; see what will happen to you if you go against us and have strong opinions or openly publish our personal business! (One of the things you learn in Journalism at college is that private persons are not news unless they are involved in something exceptional. Public personalities have far less privacy.) Of course, he is actually NOT BEING HELD AGAINST HIS WILL. It is his will to evade arrest, if not for rape then some other crime, BY NOT WALKING THE HELL OUT OF THERE!
If you've read hundreds of articles about Julian in the embassy as I have, then you know that he is not well physically. He has less movement freedom than someone in a typical jail where they get to go out into the yard for exercise and sunlight for an hour a day.
As for his vitamin e deficiencies from lack of sunlight, there are those who say to go get a sunlamp (we think they mean full spectrum,) or some daily multiple vitimins. Can't a dentist visit him and pull that tooth?
Recently Assange was cut off from using the Internet by his Ecuadorian hosts because they fear that his OPINIONS will cause economic difficulties for their country's business and relationships with other countries. (Can't they do a disclaimer such as THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY JULIAN ASSANGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF HIS HOSTS?) WORSE, he is really going to feel his isolation because he is also NO LONGER ALLOWED TO HAVE LIVE VISITS FROM ANYONE. (Can you even imagine what Vegetarian Pam will be wearing when she talks to some FBI agent in a raincoat?)
While the room in the embassy that he dwells in (with, perhaps, some privileges to walk the hall, use the bathroom, do some interviews in another room) is really is small, he was able to go through the window of the Internet into other worlds. Basically he is going to crack up and then maybe he will, when not in his right mind, walk on out, to handcuffs and photographers.
I am feeling his isolation because I'm a person who can't really stand to be indoors in a room in a house or a small apartment for more than a week. OK, I have once for sure, possibly twice, CHOSEN not to leave for a week or so because I was in a very deep zone of concentration and writing. I remained in flow for hours at a time, went to sleep, woke up in flow. It is possible. It is productive. But you could end up with carpal tunnel from a marathon typing session and you should have gone to the grocer and stocked up before you try it. Getting out into the sunlight and air is important to me.
There is one thing worse than being trapped in a place and that is being trapped in a body. I am no Steven Hawkings; let me die. I will not acclimate. I will be miserable. I will go insane if I have to be a conscious in a body I cannot control. Don't tell me about people who typed novels using a stylus attached to their nose.
If Assange has not yet cracked up officially, and maybe he is typing away in there without being able to post, if he continues to be isolated from all human contact but for the embassy staff, they are going to have worse problems than him not bathing or his going berserkers and trashing the room. (Both which have been reported though where's the proof? Tall book shelves have been known to detach from walls and when you no longer know for sure WHAT TIME IT IS, you may get off schedule when it comes to showers.)
I feel sorry enough for him as a human that I want to imagine that Vegetarian Pam and he have had their way with each other. I know he is pale and pasty, but this is a man who likes to dance to Rave Music and is no innocent when it comes to seduction. Why not?
C Christine Trzyna 2018 Al Rights Reserved
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