authfriend, Thanks for the advice, and yes, of course it's all projection on my part. And, just so you know, I truly feel that you're not excoriating me....though, sigh, I might just deserve that too.
I knew two posts ago I was "pushing it" on this BigMedia-control issue, but I've had my say, and, no one here is up in arms about it, so I guess that's a vote of sorts. So, this'll be my last post about the issue, but I expect to bring up this "type" of issue again for other events. Even the shuttle crash has its "hinky moments" -- specifically: the time they kept reporters away from a certain piece of the debris -- couldn't photo it. Why? My best bet is that that was the part that had the radioactive material in it, and NASA didn't want anyone to know that they'd put 80 pounds of Plutonium in low earth orbit. One speck of Plutionium in your lungs and you're pretty much sure to die of cancer in a year. Imagine the dust particles from that 80 pounds sprinkled like Lowery's Seasoning salts across the south west. Thankfully, looks like the containment system held tight. Typically there's a ton of public protesting to sending that kind of potent poison into space, but, me, yep, I'm figuring they just never bothered to mention that it was on that shuttle....tried to slip one past us. Paranoid? Yep. It's not this issue per se, it's that I see this kind of manipulation in the media across many issues. True, the Rorschach aspect of it is palpable, and yeah, I sure am guilty of doing the same kind of PR control when it comes to my own reputation, but the truth is that the military has EVERYTHING invested in being perceived as white knights instead of, you know, professional assassins. I may tweak my environment to keep the masks I wear from falling off, and it will be totally self serving, but I don't think I'm doing my PR so that thousands of kids in a culture will grow up thinking that it's glorious to slaughter third world folks and to sign up for BigCorp's "private" army. So stay tuned, sooner or later, I'm counting on you to either join my paranoia or to continue to call me on it until I can settle down and get it that my fears are driving my conclusions into ridiculousness. Sigh.... Thanks, Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > <snip> > > Am I being crazy here or is this not an outrageously blatant > > blacking out of the news? > > You're being crazy here. > > There's a video now of the plane falling out of > the sky. > > Did it ever occur to you that maybe there just > aren't any "interesting" photos of this crash? > Maybe the "tired" photos are all there are, and > they're just not snappy enough that people are > interested in sharing them. > > There's no "blacking out" of news of the crash. > There are still a bunch of stories up on Yahoo > and CNN. Yahoo has 486,000 listings for "Blue > Angels crash"; Google has 4.5 million. (But some > are probably stories just on the Blue Angels.) > > More importantly, perhaps, why on earth would > the military go to all the trouble of suppressing > photos? They can't suppress--and have not > suppressed--the story. It's not even that big > a story, except to the team, the pilot's friends > and family, and fans of the Blue Angels. > > From my perspective, the "control" factor has > to do with the fact that the media have wrung > all the juice out of it there was to wring, and > it wasn't much to start with. Now they're into > lionizing the pilot. > > > Please, someone, talk me out of this. > > I don't think you want to be talked out of it. > But I doubt this is the real reason for your > angst; something else is eating you. > > And it's not distrust of the Powers That Be > generally, either. It's something personal that > you don't want to look at, so you're projecting > the angst outward. > > I say this because it seems to me the intensity > of your concern about the Blue Angels crash is > way out of proportion, even if the military > *had* blacked out the news. > > This is NOT a putdown or a criticism. We all > get into this kind of thing from time to time. > I've done it myself. But you seem to be asking > for commentary, and this is how it looks to me. >
