Owens L'ill Slice of the Web

“Today there is no one to correct a lie once it is told. The media, thanks to Republicans, has been concentrated in few hands, and they are not the hands of newsmen. Corporate values rule. If lies sell, sell them. If listeners, viewers, and readers want confirmation of their resentments and beliefs, give it to them. Objectivity turns listeners off and is a money loser.”
Just what I’ve been thinking too.. Amusingly it’s from someone who is also selling something, a book about modern-day Brownshirts.

The Register really is a useful source of info, I especially like the way they tackle the really big stuff, such as why you have to shut your eyes to sneeze..

The Diana enquiry report came out. Drunk driver trying to outrun paperazzi, in probably the worlds safest car, three people were not wearing seat belts. They died, the one who belted up survived, that says more about this than any conspiracy theory.

Thinking of conspiracy, I feel really sorry for Mohamed Al-Fayed, I don’t blame him about his reaction because the British establishment -is- crap enough to have murdered her, but in this case an accident is the most plausible explanation.. And Al Fayed is a man who has lost his son and is in terrible grief, he has my deepest sympathy.

..the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
- Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg Trials.

“Ah, but that doesn’t matter in today’s politics. All you have to do is find a single instance of someone from the other side doing something similar to what you’re doing, and that makes it magically okay for you to continue doing it.

There are no ethics anymore. Instead of people striving to be ethical, they just strive to find other people being unethical so they can excuse their own unethical behavior.”
Too True.. from a /. discussion.

“…you can drill into your kid that the internet is full of weird people and christians.”
- ‘David’, in a letter to my favorite newspaper, The Register.

This is war. And wars for the customers’ hearts and minds are won by ridicule, bad manners and SHOUTING!!! And, above all else, never give in to reality.
- The Register.

“This is what the inherent failure of Wikipedia is. It’s that there’s a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of triddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defenders..”
From a ‘readers letters‘ article in The Register, which at least, has an editor.

Brilliant TV. Last nights episode (Bad Wolf) has to rate as one of the most fantastic bits of television I have seen in a very long time.

An informative article on MSNBC:
“There is this weird sense that the Internet is broken because it lets people make easy copies. . . . The Internet is a machine for making copies, and artists need to come to grips with that,” Cory Doctorow

And it looks like Prince Harry is no different, so what. Why do we let the press set the agenda this way? Who causes the offence? Harry with a dumb fancy-dress, or the Newspaper that puts a photo of it on the front cover? Why can’t the newspapers grow up?

Basically, society no longer cares what the “law” says, because more and more people realize that the “law” says whatever the Honorable Senator from Disney wants it to say. Using it to defend your position compares well to using a pool of sewage runoff to take a bath in – You don’t actually accomplish your goal, and you come out smelling like shit.

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