Word: medias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Checker still plugs the hits he made 25 years ago, and the new Mickey Mouse Club has a whole new generation of Mousketeers on the march. There is something rather pathetic inherent in nostalgia--that yearning for the good old days that never really existed--and especially in the media-contrived instant nostalgia which is constantly being produced in this country. Things are hardly gone before they're immortalized, distilled and stereotyped. If that doesn't produce results, then you simply dredge up heroes from the past...
...days, when "the movies really meant something." It is the same sadness you get when you hear the formula-rock and roll bands eulogizing how the original music is. But as anyone who saw Elvis grow old and ridiculous on the cover of countless magazines already knows, the media in this country can hardly ever be accused of seeking new directions or even of good taste. For the movies and television seem to have had remarkable success in sticking to the Eisenhower mentality--taking the straight and narrow path down the middle...
PSST. We hear there is quite a fuss in media-land these days. It appears that nobody appreciates the good little reporter who slaves away getting his Facts Right, explaining the Issues to the People and finding the Big story. Rumor has it (although we can't believe it), people don't read the front pages first...
...society and home sections. Ear began in June of '75, and now she has a reservoir of sources, mostly phone contacts. She says she only hits one party a week. (Only one! we gasp. How does she ever choose?) The answer: "I usually pick the ones with lots of media people. They tend to be the best gossips...
...turns the tables on the media people though and inks them up in her column right next to the government types. So ends the woes of journalists who regret spending all their time covering news and no time making news. Maybe journalism is making an advance. Well, maybe...