The Nobel Madness

Posted by Caela on October 9, 2009 · 5 Comments 

Isn’t it funny when the media find fault and cry “undeserving” in recent years when the Nobel Peace Prize is given in this manner? Hello? Do they they get amnesia every year? After all, this is the institution that gave Kofi Annan and the UN an award “for their work for a better organized and more peaceful world.” (Where that world is, I’d like to arrange a transfer please. Hitler’s intention too was for a more organized world, or so I heard.If intent alone warranted prizes I would be on this list as so every beauty queen who wanted “world peace”. Also I would have a Nobel Prize for Literature and Physics too.) Raise hell whenever the Oslo Selection Committee names a laureate who is actually “worthy of great honor or distinction”, it’s out of character. This backfire after a long playing zarzuela and trahedya de komedya of the media’s love affair with Barack Obama deserve a good ribbing and lots of laugh. This was expected and can be seen and heard from a mile away, so grin and bear it. Don’t fuss and be a kill joy.

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Network: A Review

Posted by silent sinner on March 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

by silent sinner Director:      Sidney Lumet Writers:        Paddy Chayefsky Genre:          Drama, Satire Plot:             A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor’s ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. Rating:       * * * * * (5/5) Network (1976) is considered as one of the one hundred best … Continue reading →

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Politics and the 24 Hour Media Culture: The War of the Words

Posted by Caela on March 5, 2009 · 1 Comment 

Masters of communication, charisma, presence, centrism, action and conviction, they are the new breed of politicians dominating the international political stage. The wake of 24 hours of coverage has placed politics and politicians in the eyes of continuous scrutiny no longer merely in policies, leadership kills and decisions but on their personal life as well — never in the world’s history had both the private and public lives of public figures became more public and open to scrutiny by the press and publicly dissected by publications, blogs and online forums. And yet, never in the history of the world were the tough questions often placed to one side and that the media’s commitment to truth is tainted by its biases as character-assassination, slander, mockery, moral pissing and criticism becomes its most favorite sports. Thus the ability to deal with the media had been an integral — if not essential — part of the qualities needed to succeed in today’s politics.

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