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by wilderness wench
Reminded, yet again, of the events in NYC on September 11, 2001 -- a temperate autumn day in the workaday Northeast -- and still astounded by the ways in which those events have transformed into a national trauma of international proportions, I've penned the following humble verse.
It's said that on grief's pathway, the sharing of our stories is key to our understanding of precisely where we stand on it. Thanks to the uses made of the day's events -- uses which, by informed definition, can be labeled terrorism -- I find the need to revisit, recount, exhume & examine, in the telling of this particular tale. Read on, if you will -- unless unpracticed poetry gives you a pain. My intentions are humble; I just aim to recount. Read more... (26 comments, 334 words in story) by wilderness wench
The job of television is to deliver you to industry.
You are the product, industry the consumer. The well-maintained illusion Is that the opposite is true -- But though you can do without It, It can't do without you.
The job of television is to deliver you to leadership
Deliver your eyes to the screen,
Television exists in the public interest Comments >> (6 comments) by wilderness wench
Maybe it's the time of year, or maybe it's the time of man. In any case, my cultivated tolerance for media complicity in Bush administration crimes -- a tolerance bred in simple awareness, in the interests of my emotional health -- has reached its knee-high threshold yet again.
Tonight, a word on the lips of NPR's Mara Liasson ticked me off. I was inspired thereby to contact NPR's ombudsman on the matter, which I believe has certain implications beyond the simply linguistic. Read more... (13 comments, 876 words in story) |
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