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...meant that BSA endorsed Jeffries' reported racism; the young man said no, it did not, and added that he was pretty skeptical anyway about those reports--coming as they did from the "white media." This distrust for the "white media" struck me as absurd--was he just saying this crap so he could get on TV? But after seeing some distortions of Jeffries' speech, I can see why some members of the Black community might develop distrust for media coverage of Jeffries...
Smaller papers have also been struggling to halt invasion of privacy. At the Wichita Eagle, editor Merritt decided in 1990 to change coverage to compel gubernatorial candidates to speak to the issues and "get off the crap sound- bite kind of campaigns." The paper polled a thousand readers and nonreaders before and after the campaign and concluded that readers had greatly enhanced understanding of issues while nonreaders did not. Says Merritt: "We are convinced that the appetite is out there for the kind of journalism all of us would like to do on campaigns. If a candidate is running around...
...these movies accepted the recent verdict of Time that "...the 1980s [have] come into focus as a misguided era of borrowed luxury." All of these films self-righteously painted the conspicuous consumer of the 80s as a greedy, uncaring bastard. And all of them were boring, hokey pieces of crap that lost millions of dollars for their studios. (Except for Hook, which starred actors with big enough names to turn it into a financially successful, boring, hokey piece of crap...
WHICH BRINGS ME to Father of The Bride, a 1991 movie which was neither boring nor overwhelmingly hokey nor crap. But--and this But has gotten me into more heated arguments in the last few months than JFK, the '92 election and the Super Bowl combined--I also think it's a pretty disturbing movie. Billed as "a comedy about letting go," Father of the Bride is the story of an immature but lovable daddy who learns that if he really cares about his daughter's happiness, he must let go--not only paternally (by agreeing to stop trying...
...trouble when...the Comedy Channel carries your State of the Union address with live commentary. When you have to make self-deprecating remarks in that address about yarfing at a state dinner. When you go to New Hampshire and get so giddy with that down-home-in-Texas crap that you babble obtusely about the "Nitty Ditty Gritty Nitty Dirt Band...