…even if nobody is watching.
Jon Stewart NAILS the media on rumour mongering passed off as news.
Isn’t it sad that a comedy show has more information and honesty, integrity and common sense than ‘mainstream media’?
No, it is obscene. What we have made, people. We get the media we deserve, too.
…horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
I SO miss MST3K….
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…frail. Without the people’s support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
There are many reasons why more and more people choose to get their news more from Jon Stewart on The Daily Show than from the traditional outlets. Let me show you one:
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…doubt those who find it.
The new X-Files movie trailer is out. Subtitled ‘I want to Believe‘, fans everywhere rejoice. Yes, me too! Unashamedly looking forward to it:)
All of a sudden, a few weeks after trailer release, there is the announcement of a ‘new alien video’ that will convince us all of aliens.
Hmm. Coincidence??? Course not. Viral marketing cleverness, whether from producers or a fan.
And Richard, afaik, is the first person I have heard from, off or online, who first put the two together. Of course, he may just be a Lone Gunmen member;)
Want to believe, indeed!
Btw, another take on it all;)
…provided it is incredible.
Terry Pratchett writes some of the funniest books ever. The Discworld series is utter genius. One of the things that makes them so brilliant is that they aren’t just incredibly, wittily, ridiculously funny, they are searingly, bitingly observant. I give you an excerpt from Hogfather:
Death: Humans need fantasy to *be* human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.
Susan: With tooth fairies? Hogfathers?
Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
Susan: They’re not the same at all.
Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.
Susan: But people have got to believe that, or what’s the point?
Death: You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?
…I know my endorsement just made your mind up for you.
Tom Hanks, the man of gentle wit and dry humour, has summed up for me why (if I was American), I would vote Obama.
…”My Precious! O my Precious!”
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…of a miscarriage of justice.
I am a tad fed up (actually utterly annoyed) with this generation looking at my generation’s tv and movies and music and remaking, revisiting, and just damn well ripping off my childhood. Stop it. Stop it at once.
Now a remake of Blake’s 7 has been announced.
It is the end times, people. Dogs and cats, living together….
My lawn, get off it.
…without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment
goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or
impossible to execute.
The Daily Show has shown us how to truly regard Fox ‘News’. One of the best bits of reporting of the year. Funny, acid genius. Michael Moore wishes he was this good.
…puppets much. I don’t find them believable.
Waldorf: I don’t believe you.
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