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
methough, 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 shuttletried 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
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung no_reply@ wrote:
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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.
