March 27, 2006
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The Daily News
1 So…Buck Owens walks into a bar…
2 And there you have it!
3 The DN is back up and running and as stupid as ever!
4 Among other things, Buck wrote this:
They’re gonna put me in the movies;
they’re gonna make a big star outta me.
The’ll make a film about a man that’s sad and lonely,
And all I gotta do is act naturally.
5 Yep. If you’re a Beatles’s fan, you probably recognize the great Act Naturally, as sung by the immortal Ringo Starr. Well, it REALLY was a Buck Owens tune.
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So I hope you come and see me in the movies;
then I know that you will plainly see
the biggest fool that ever hit the big time
and all I gotta do is act naturally.
7 Good stuff, Buck. Good stuff, Ringo.
8 Oh, and the apostrophe “s” after “Beatles” evidently is now considered THE way to do plural possessives.
9 Grammarians. Yeesh.
10 Oh, boy.
11 I just checked this, and for some reason, right after I sang the praises of Xanga, it decides to go wonky with the fonts. I claim it’s a Myspace.com conspiracy to keep us all stupid. More on that later.
12 No point in battling it. When it wants to do this, it just does.
13 Hopefully it will do it for just a brief stint, and then go back to normal.
14 Yoiks.
15 Well, this weekend, there was a Youth Advisory Council meeting at the Camden Community Center in San Jose, in which over 400 middle and high school student talked about Myspace.com.
16 I bring this up because I have talked of how much better I have always thought that Xanga was than Myspace, and how Myspace is just plain strange and unintellectual beyond reason.
17 Myspace, it turns out, is owned by a company called News Corp. which is owned by the foxy and very conservative Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News.
18 Murdoch is your living, breathing, walking, talking symbol of everything that’s wrong with modern journalism at the hands of rich guys with an agenda. Those of you in the know have probably seen the very revealing documentary called Outfoxed, Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (2004), a chilling indictment of the current state of television and radio journalism in modern times. I think if you have a computer at home and a little time, you can watch it by clicking on the following link:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7798.htm
19 Anyway, the film basically discusses how Murdoch essentially sees a news story and then tells his reporters how to approach the story. It’s pretty scary that the “liberal” media seem to be dominated and controlled by very powerful rich people.
20 Our thoughts are no longer our own, and guys like Murdoch want to see to it that it stays that way.
21 But like most people, I’d personally rather just turn my head and ignore that sort of thing.
22 Who has time to find out the truth about anything?
24 I’m personally too busy goofing on my own Myspace. HOW I ever got one to begin with is a mystery to me, but NOT having one nowadays is a bit like not having pants, I imagine.
25 Anyway, I just thought it interesting to note that Myspace is controlled by News Corp. But it doesn’t surprise me. The trend is clear: the media in the Year of our Lord, 2006, are all now completely controlled, so nothing to be said, nothing to be said.
26 And guys like Murdoch now own and control the single most popular website among young people.
27 Well, as I said, who has time to care?
28 Personally, I’m too busy.
29 Like most people in America in 2006, I can only think in short bursts.
30 That’s just the way I like it. I choose to remain an idiot. I hope some day you’ll join us. And the world could live as dumb.
31 Peace.
~H~
