05-02-2009, 04:13 AM
NY Review of books lost interest. True. We have lost a sense of just how unbelieveably non-"alternative" the alternative or innerlechual mags are.
That is an important gatekeeping function.
Not to mention things like the NYT Book Review. Think about it In 1966 books like Six Seconds in Dallas Could get national reviews. NOw they cant but we keep acting like all we have to do is type the truth and it will get out.
It won't. This is on degree of our inverted totalitarianism. Today's alternative media is about as alternative as Pat Nixon kissing Big Bird (which she did, there is a picuture illustrating this action from 1970 hanging in my classroom, which was just closed by mayor Bloomberg in order to build more smaller schools that have a lot of technology and taxpayer money given to the smartboard company) sorry more inverted totalitarianism.
That is an important gatekeeping function.
Not to mention things like the NYT Book Review. Think about it In 1966 books like Six Seconds in Dallas Could get national reviews. NOw they cant but we keep acting like all we have to do is type the truth and it will get out.
It won't. This is on degree of our inverted totalitarianism. Today's alternative media is about as alternative as Pat Nixon kissing Big Bird (which she did, there is a picuture illustrating this action from 1970 hanging in my classroom, which was just closed by mayor Bloomberg in order to build more smaller schools that have a lot of technology and taxpayer money given to the smartboard company) sorry more inverted totalitarianism.