Comments on: Marching Down Memory Lane: Globalvision Turns 20. http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/11/29/marching-down-memory-lane-globalvision-turns-20/ Danny Schechter's daily media dissections Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Communist Mike http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/11/29/marching-down-memory-lane-globalvision-turns-20/#comment-15675 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:31:19 +0000 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/11/29/marching-down-memory-lane-globalvision-turns-20/#comment-15675 Shall we play somthing fatal as our soundtrack to life or something more lively and inspired, comrades? Let's beat the capitalists at their own game. Let's co-opt the co-opters! We don't need publicly funded t.v stations, we need enlightend entrepreneurs to present somthing substantial on television with creative new ideas and approaches toward providing news and entertainment. The addage that journalism is meant to be objective is hogwash! Critically and socially-minded journalists should present things in terms of their weltanshauung(pardon the spelling, the closest I came to learning German was reading a label for a sausage once) and in accordance with their political and social ideals. As Alexander Cockburn once said: "You can't be neutral on a speeding train.". Let's cheer up, brainstorm ideas on how to acquire the necessary material means to buy television and radio stations and enjoy this blessed thing we call life. Until then I will be enjoying the company of my future wife, my friends and the NFL. Strengthen your resolve, comrades and will a better world into being! Vlast Naroda! Shall we play somthing fatal as our soundtrack to life or something more lively and inspired, comrades? Let’s beat the capitalists at their own game. Let’s co-opt the co-opters! We don’t need publicly funded t.v stations, we need enlightend entrepreneurs to present somthing substantial on television with creative new ideas and approaches toward providing news and entertainment. The addage that journalism is meant to be objective is hogwash! Critically and socially-minded journalists should present things in terms of their weltanshauung(pardon the spelling, the closest I came to learning German was reading a label for a sausage once) and in accordance with their political and social ideals. As Alexander Cockburn once said: “You can’t be neutral on a speeding train.”. Let’s cheer up, brainstorm ideas on how to acquire the necessary material means to buy television and radio stations and enjoy this blessed thing we call life. Until then I will be enjoying the company of my future wife, my friends and the NFL. Strengthen your resolve, comrades and will a better world into being! Vlast Naroda!

]]> by: NABNYC http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/11/29/marching-down-memory-lane-globalvision-turns-20/#comment-15667 Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:03:57 +0000 http://www.newsdissector.com/blog/2007/11/29/marching-down-memory-lane-globalvision-turns-20/#comment-15667 What do you value? What matters to you? Big questions. And since 1980, since Reagan took over and de-regulated everything to allow his elitest friends to steal, rape, pillage, loot without fear of legal restrictions, and since all rights of the individuals were eliminated, there was a need to define a new national value. What matters to all of us, as explained by those who were looting the country, is money. The only question to ask is: how much is it worth. I have thought to myself that we should change our national greeting. Instead of saying "Hello, how are you?" we should cut right to the chase and ask "How much money do you have?" Because if you don't have any money, or don't have significant amounts of money, you are not worth taking up anyone's time. If your work, or your project, or your hopes and dreams and plans, will not generate an obscene amount of money, then they are worthless too. We used to have new movies released, professional movie reviewers might write something about whether they like it or don't like it or why, the Catholic groups would come up with their religious censorship telling their people whether to see the movie or not, and normal people would go see the movie, eat some popcorn, spend a few hours, maybe have a good time. No more. Those were the good old days. Now when a movie is released, within 24 hours we hear exactly how much money that movie earned: how much per screen, how many people went to see it, what age group, return on investment, profits or losses to the investors. Nobody cares about the movie anymore, whether it's good, whether it's spectacular, whether it's a piece of crap, is so far down on the list that it is essentially of no consequence. Someone can make a movie which only shows serial killers and monsters murdering everyone in the most brutally imaginable way. It can be horribly racist, can encourage violence against women, support cruelty against children and animals -- and that doesn't matter, because the only thing that matters is how much money did it make. What is projected for DVD rentals and sales? What do they expect it will make in the European market. So for TV, same thing. How much does it make? If they could put on a TV show of some idiot throwing water balloons out a window and hitting people, and it would cost little but get an audience at least of adolescent boys who by definition are easily amused, then they would put that on instead of the news. Want to change TV? We need our own television stations. And we need public funding to allow local stations to be run by local people. Otherwise, use TV for entertainment or to kill time, but don't let your kids watch it, and don't look to TV for news or current affairs. The better course would be to just unplug. But then we couldn't see the baseball games which, despite the decline in the empire, still make it possible to get through the dark months. What do you value? What matters to you? Big questions. And since 1980, since Reagan took over and de-regulated everything to allow his elitest friends to steal, rape, pillage, loot without fear of legal restrictions, and since all rights of the individuals were eliminated, there was a need to define a new national value. What matters to all of us, as explained by those who were looting the country, is money.

The only question to ask is: how much is it worth. I have thought to myself that we should change our national greeting. Instead of saying “Hello, how are you?” we should cut right to the chase and ask “How much money do you have?”

Because if you don’t have any money, or don’t have significant amounts of money, you are not worth taking up anyone’s time. If your work, or your project, or your hopes and dreams and plans, will not generate an obscene amount of money, then they are worthless too.

We used to have new movies released, professional movie reviewers might write something about whether they like it or don’t like it or why, the Catholic groups would come up with their religious censorship telling their people whether to see the movie or not, and normal people would go see the movie, eat some popcorn, spend a few hours, maybe have a good time.

No more. Those were the good old days.

Now when a movie is released, within 24 hours we hear exactly how much money that movie earned: how much per screen, how many people went to see it, what age group, return on investment, profits or losses to the investors. Nobody cares about the movie anymore, whether it’s good, whether it’s spectacular, whether it’s a piece of crap, is so far down on the list that it is essentially of no consequence.

Someone can make a movie which only shows serial killers and monsters murdering everyone in the most brutally imaginable way. It can be horribly racist, can encourage violence against women, support cruelty against children and animals — and that doesn’t matter, because the only thing that matters is how much money did it make. What is projected for DVD rentals and sales? What do they expect it will make in the European market.

So for TV, same thing. How much does it make? If they could put on a TV show of some idiot throwing water balloons out a window and hitting people, and it would cost little but get an audience at least of adolescent boys who by definition are easily amused, then they would put that on instead of the news.

Want to change TV? We need our own television stations. And we need public funding to allow local stations to be run by local people. Otherwise, use TV for entertainment or to kill time, but don’t let your kids watch it, and don’t look to TV for news or current affairs.

The better course would be to just unplug. But then we couldn’t see the baseball games which, despite the decline in the empire, still make it possible to get through the dark months.

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