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If the world is going to hell, and before you know better, there are... ways to enjoy what of it is possible before it all falls down. Timing, folks, it's all about timing.
-Not safe for work, kids, some pets, impressionable machinery, ladies, and any one else with sensitives.-
-As well, this is not an endorsement of any idea involved, don't do any of this at home. At least not as advertised.-
However... history is history, warts and all. Uhrm, don't believe everything advertised works as such. No, not a personal problem by the way.
Now scoot. Good night.
I will confess that, on the odd occasion, I have worked in advertising. Advertising is legalized prostitution, pure and simple. Its purpose is never to help you, but to sell you something.
ReplyDeleteThere are two distinct differences between the prostitution represented by advertising, and its classic and more familiar antecedent. An advertiser can never achieve the level of empathy which is the hallmark of the successful whore. And an advertiser is seldom (if ever) kissed.
Well. There is THAT.
ReplyDeleteI simply assume that if they are trying to sell something, almost anything, I probably do not want to buy it. It's a game of will, one most people lose. I look for things that work for my application, which aren't advertised, and then avoid advertisement as much as possible.
I also avoid salesman, though I will seek out other users and actual professionals, avoiding "experts", mostly, as well. Most experts have never gotten their hands dirty and work in theory. Useful, at times, for understanding "how", or finding tricks in the system, nearly useless for creating real function.
Oh, right... +1
The thing I like about some of my friends? They might have done... questionable things. But the good ones are honest about it. As I try to be, with the givens I have to work with. Pillory self or blithely believe in one's own falsity? Yeah. Good call, Guido. :)
I also used to cover school board meetings for the Houston Chronicle. That was the closest I ever got to capital-J Journalism.
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it: Lois Lane and all those other hotshot reporters must've had incriminating evidence on the publishers in order to be pursuing major stories at such a relatively tender age.
I don't know a thing about that, but have suspicions. That's just Hollywood. Though with the more public bits, if you are pretty enough on top of having a viewable a-game and voice, you might get the limelight.
ReplyDeleteNow, a question I have is... how much of what reporters do is what they do, and how much of it comes from other sources. I mean, if an a-reporter is doing something, might he send you out to do the footwork? I have great doubts that many of them do all of their own work... maybe check sources, if it seems screwy. And put the data into a package the editor will buy, in their words, sure. But...
Another question is, why is all media liberal? Even Fox is just crony capitalist, not conservative at all (as I see things). Is that from the destruction of academia, or does it have another source(s), or in addition, from what you can tell?