[lit-ideas] Re: separate universes
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- Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 05:56:31 EDT
<<Mike Geary being diplomatic
Oh please -- don't hold back.....tell us how you really feel......>>
Julie Krueger
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>> Well, I don't agree. Without Geraldo all we'd have is Bush's version. <<
Well, I don't agree. With Geraldo we have Bush's version plus a phony
sentimentalism that not only doesn't challenge Republican laissez-faire
economics
but plays into it's hands, distracting the people from failed policies with
easy emotionalism.
>> Why is reporting on horror automatically called schlock?
It isn't. It's how it's reported on that makes it schlock. A reporter
crying while giving his report should clue you in that something other than
reportage is happening here.
>> And I don't care if Geraldo is the best actor in the world shedding the
biggest crocodile tears in the world, the situation he was in called for
tears.<<
No, it didn't, goddamnit. It called for dispassionate, investigative
reporting. What he does is cheap and easy and destructive to the very nature
of
the press. The press was once a bulwark against the rich and powerful --
well,
OK, it's a spotted history at best, granted -- but that's how it should be
and now it's practically become the primary tool or the r & p. Geraldo and
his kind cry over those who suffer, but never dare challenge the power
structure as to why they're suffering. I assume you know why.
>> Many people interviewed, black and while, cried. It's an extreme
situation.<<
Yes, it is an extreme situation, but not for Geraldo. Once this
assignment's over with, he's off again to his multi-million dollar life -- as
if he'd
ever left it. Even if Geraldo is genuinely overcome with so much emotion that
he can't help but cry, well, shouldn't any editor worth his salt would edit
that out . Else it's a story about Geraldo and his sorrows, not the problems
of the victims or the proposed solutions that the citizenry need to know.
Fuck Geraldo. Fuck all those smalled-souled shits making hundreds of millions
off the suffering and sorrw of those abject people. Geraldo and his ilk
will reap windfall profits from this thing, trust me. I despise and revile
them
all.
Mike Geary
being diplomatic
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