Okay folks, I just know I'm gonna have a VERY hard time keeping the expletitives out of this one, though I will try.
As you probably already know by now, Jefferson County officials released a video which show Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold showing off some of their weapons at a nearby rifle range. However, it's not the fact that they released it that irks me (although it does since a Federal judge ordered the tape, and anything else associated with the Columbine massacre DESTROYED), but it's HOW the Jefferson County officials are releasing it that makes my blood BOIL (and it should makes YOURS boil as well). :-(
They are charging $20 and are SELLING copies of the video to ANYONE who has the $$$ who wants a copy. Heck, why don't they just put up a BIG HUGE display at Blockbuster Video or Hollywood Video or something? This way, they can sell HUNDREDS of copies.
I mean, does the county not see the potential for copycats who could be more successful here?? Obviously not. Look at the case of the two teenagers in New Jersey The SCARY part of that is they didn't have access to a video or whatever. I shudder to imagine what could happen when such a copycat does get this TRIPE of a "video".
This is NOT "entertainment". It isn't even "Reality TV". It is a GLAMOURIZATION of the actions of A PAIR OF KILLERS and their so-called "friends". Plain and simple.
Now.....Having said that, I sympathize with the parents' desire to have all the information on the Columbine investigation disseminated (sp?), but THIS IS NOT THE WAY. Moreover, this video should be DESTROYED. The judge's ORDERS were VERY SPECIFIC. They contained NOTHING which gave Jefferson County ANY LEGAL RIGHT WHATSOEVER to "Sell" ANYTHING related to Columbine for profit. For this alone, I hope the judge takes Jefferson County TO THE CLEANERS.
But has ANYONE thought about those who LIVED through that massacre and survived?? NO! Has ANYONE even ASKED them? NO! It's as if these people don't have rights or something because THEY SURVIVED COLUMBINE and have told about it. That IN AND OF ITSELF is a cryin' shame! :-(
If there's one VOICE THE PEOPLE of Jefferson County still have, it is by way of THE VOTING MACHINE. If *I* were a Jefferson County resident, *I'd* call for sweeping changes across the board. This would mean that NONE of the incumbents in Jefferson County races in 2004 wwould get a "free pass". They all would have lost MY vote a LONG time ago.
If they wanna make a profit, that's fine. BUT NOT ON MY DIME. And certainly NOT with this TRIPE of a "video" which is marketed by Jefferson County as if it were an Arnold Schwartzenegger action movie.
Just my opinion.
Cheers for now :-)
Pat
Demand Journalism WITHOUT A Corporate Agenda
Friday, October 24, 2003
Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Mainstream Media vs. Porn - What's The Difference?
Recent discussions on a couple places I frequent have me wondering what IS the difference between a music video and a porn movie. I mean THINK ABOUT IT. When you have MEGASTARS like Brittney Spears (sp?) bearing it all in front of HUNDREDS at at an auditorium and MILLIONS at home watching on TV coupled with the recent kiss between Madonna and Brittney in a recent music video AND the fact that MORE AND MORE ex-porn stars are entering the "mainstream media" arena (Actress/Ex-Porn diva Traci Lords being the latest), how long do you think it will be before we start seeing actual porn scenes in Hollywood big screen movies?
Columnist Al Lewis of the Denver Post wrote in the Sunday Edition of his column the following commentary in his piece on putting LOCKS on music CDs....
"The music industry always has profited from dark and socially irresponsible motifs: rappers who promote cop killings; rockers who glorify illicit sex and drugs; metalheads who just can't sing enough kind words for Satan.".
Although the column was aimed at the issue of file sharing, one has to begin to wonder WHEN the ENTIRE entertainment industry will GET ITS HEAD OUT OF THE FUCKING SAND and either remove ALL such explicit material from EVERYTHING we see and hear OR embrace it and let PARENTS decide what's suitable for their children.
My virtual "buddy"(I like to call him that because I like to think we happen to think pretty much alike :-)), Sean Kennedy at Rant Radio has often said that TV just isn't "real". Of course it isn't. That's because TV, like the rest of the entertainment industry, HAS ITS HEAD BURIED IN THE SAND. They prefer to WATER DOWN what actually takes place. A good example is when two people are in a "love-making" scene on a soap opera, they call it just that. But in reality, they're going through the motions of HAVING SEX!!! Does the soap get cancelled? NO.
But when Ellen DeGeneres admitted during her first show that the was a lesbian, her show got the axe almost IMMEDIATELY. And when Rosie O' Donnell later did the same thing, I tend to think she was COERCED into quitting her show. I've often wondered what would happen to Oprah Winfrey if SHE announced that SHE was a lesbian. Would SHE be given the same treatment? In all likelihood, probably so.
But when it comes to Actress Sharon Stone, THEY ALREADY KNOW SHE CAME FROM THE PORN INDUSTRY!!!! Yet movie studios and directors aren't hesistant to hire HER. It's funny how HYPOCRITICAL the entertainment industry can be, isn't it.
A recent discussion in the Winamp Forums here truly depics the socialogical debating we do on this issue. I mention this because there's now some concern by a handful of people within the Winamp Community that Winamp's new Nullsoft Streaming Video platform will become a haven for those who want to set up porn streams. I say THERE ALREADY ARE porn streams up and running. Just open up Winamp 2.91 or greater and hit ALT L. Then click on the Internet TV genre. From there, just pick practically any of the stations playing music videos and you'll see what I mean.
Add to this the STRANGLEHOLD the entertainment industry has on old TV shows and look where that leave Internet TV. Internet TV stations such as this one must either produce ORIGINAL content, pick up other content from other Internet TV stations such as Sean Kennedy's TV Station or air PORN CLIPS. It's just that simple.
Boy, this entry has me all blogged out for now folks. Time to put a wrapper on this and post it. :-)
Cheers for now :-)
Pat
Columnist Al Lewis of the Denver Post wrote in the Sunday Edition of his column the following commentary in his piece on putting LOCKS on music CDs....
"The music industry always has profited from dark and socially irresponsible motifs: rappers who promote cop killings; rockers who glorify illicit sex and drugs; metalheads who just can't sing enough kind words for Satan.".
Although the column was aimed at the issue of file sharing, one has to begin to wonder WHEN the ENTIRE entertainment industry will GET ITS HEAD OUT OF THE FUCKING SAND and either remove ALL such explicit material from EVERYTHING we see and hear OR embrace it and let PARENTS decide what's suitable for their children.
My virtual "buddy"(I like to call him that because I like to think we happen to think pretty much alike :-)), Sean Kennedy at Rant Radio has often said that TV just isn't "real". Of course it isn't. That's because TV, like the rest of the entertainment industry, HAS ITS HEAD BURIED IN THE SAND. They prefer to WATER DOWN what actually takes place. A good example is when two people are in a "love-making" scene on a soap opera, they call it just that. But in reality, they're going through the motions of HAVING SEX!!! Does the soap get cancelled? NO.
But when Ellen DeGeneres admitted during her first show that the was a lesbian, her show got the axe almost IMMEDIATELY. And when Rosie O' Donnell later did the same thing, I tend to think she was COERCED into quitting her show. I've often wondered what would happen to Oprah Winfrey if SHE announced that SHE was a lesbian. Would SHE be given the same treatment? In all likelihood, probably so.
But when it comes to Actress Sharon Stone, THEY ALREADY KNOW SHE CAME FROM THE PORN INDUSTRY!!!! Yet movie studios and directors aren't hesistant to hire HER. It's funny how HYPOCRITICAL the entertainment industry can be, isn't it.
A recent discussion in the Winamp Forums here truly depics the socialogical debating we do on this issue. I mention this because there's now some concern by a handful of people within the Winamp Community that Winamp's new Nullsoft Streaming Video platform will become a haven for those who want to set up porn streams. I say THERE ALREADY ARE porn streams up and running. Just open up Winamp 2.91 or greater and hit ALT L. Then click on the Internet TV genre. From there, just pick practically any of the stations playing music videos and you'll see what I mean.
Add to this the STRANGLEHOLD the entertainment industry has on old TV shows and look where that leave Internet TV. Internet TV stations such as this one must either produce ORIGINAL content, pick up other content from other Internet TV stations such as Sean Kennedy's TV Station or air PORN CLIPS. It's just that simple.
Boy, this entry has me all blogged out for now folks. Time to put a wrapper on this and post it. :-)
Cheers for now :-)
Pat
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