Monday, October 10, 2011

Spent practically the N-tire day writing up stuff for The Breeze and assembling info for Moon Over Buffalo publicity.
Had to get out of the house, so drove up to Manahawkin about 6:00 to pick up a few things.
Did enjoy my Sunday-night Skype call from Ellen and, this morning, from P. and N.
Nothing else happenin' around here...
WIDER: An interesting comment on CommonDreams.org about the right-wing infilitrator at the Air and Space Museum:
Posted by since1492
Oct 9 2011 - 10:05am.Howley is a media whore with a clear agenda. He is there to serve his paymasters. Jack London wrote about the media in IRON HEEL: "You have forgotten the editors. They draw their salaries for the policy that they maintain. Their policy is to print nothing that is a vital menace to the established. The press in the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it.”
I had never read that quote from London. Guess it was true at the beginning of the twentieth century and you'd better believe it, still true today.

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Thursday

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