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...political turmoil (in the case of punk, economic and social turmoil in late-1970’s Britain; in the case of indie, rebellion against traditional gender roles in music and disdain towards the mass marketing of an art form) was deliberately sold as bandwagon rebellion. As Bart Simpson said while the Smashing Pumpkins played in front of him at Lollapalooza, “making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel,” and through deliberate and contrived publicity, the UK-banned Never Mind the Bollocks became a No. 1 album, and Nirvana moved so-called...
...circuses journalistic spectacles of the 1990s began with Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill. The tradition proceeded through violent variations such as Waco, Oklahoma City, and Columbine; through the deaths-in-their-golden-prime of Diana and John Jr., and through that masterpiece of sexual, interracial, and criminal drama, the O.J. Simpson case...
...Seat belt designer Joe Simpson, who resigned from Simpson Performance Products after Earnhardt?s crash, held his own press conference after NASCAR?s, blaming the driver?s crew for improperly installing the belt. Safety expert Raddin shrugged off that allegation, noting that the belt could not have been installed differently and still fit the seat...
...equivalent of war - that is, in the absence of world-historical events or the fall of empires, they filled the news hole, they fed the many-headed media beast. Once the Soviet Union and the Cold War were gone, we have had Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the O.J. Simpson case, Waco, Oklahoma City, the death of Princess Diana, Colombine, the Icarus descent of John Kennedy Jr, Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, Elian Gonzalez, and much, much more...
...larger sociobiology that replicates, on a national (or even international) scale, the gossip dynamics of a village? Gossip - however vicious, obsessive, and intrusive - has always served an important community function. The stories work as parables, forms of instruction, universal metaphors. (What, God help us, does the parable of O.J. Simpson instruct our children about justice...