Archives for “Media”

The Rule of Consistency and Why You Are Being Played

Tweet You are being played to keep you on the corporate teet and make sure you don’t rise up. You have been convinced to do what you are told at a level that you no longer even realize it. Yes. You. There is no one “the man” that is keeping us down. It’s the entire [...]


more breasts and less violence

Tweet NOTE: This is a cross post. Please comment on the Houston Chronicle More Breasts Less Violence Post. I have mentioned before, half jokingly, that part of the problem with the media is that we need “more breasts and less violence.” As a parent of three children, I find it disturbing that CSI can show [...]


rosen on wikileaks – stateless news organization

Tweet Worth a read on wikileaks Wikileaks, the World’s First Stateless News Organization Ask yourself: Why didn’t Wikileaks just publish the Afghanistan war logs and let journalists ‘round the world have at them? Why hand them over to The New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel first? Because as Julien Assange, founder of Wikileaks, [...]


Tweet “For once, the culture of instant gratification that we’ve so come to live by has been neatly swept aside and tethered back… for as well as bringing meticulous glamour back to womenswear, Tom Ford is bringing back something even bigger: anticipation. Fed up with the Internet age of public consumption Ford has kept the [...]


Tweet The pursuit of attention is now emerging as one of the electric organizing principles of American life. Not only are people pursuing attention in new ways, but there is evidence that we have begun to restructure our culture – including even our politics and economy – around the idea of attention as a glittering [...]