because of a intermittent supply chain i received my friday new york times this morning...perhaps there was a glitch somewhere in the "news" pipeline...or i live out at the end of the motor route and the delivery person wasn't feeling up to the drive...or didn't really care if i got my paper on the same day it was dated...whichever...the point is if i had gotten the paper on time we would have already been through this...as it stand the times has once again utilized precious canadian newsprint to send me high definition, full-page photos of ears ( different than wednesday's )...with startling detail that isn't all that aesthetically pleasing and a center-spread announcing that i am about to be heavily propagandized ( a trait the times has been displaying more openly in these trumpist times...with a heavy bias in favor of women..i have lived with women all my life..and i like them...have pursued them...seen multiple facets of them in sixty odd years...the times is distorting their humanness for political expedience ) over some unnamed but important ( in the editors' eyes ) issue that i should care about deeply and will be some tone-deaf trumpsist slug if i don't jump on the bandwagon and add my voice tot he groupthink chorus...i have already been through the evils of sanitizing history and pc debate framing and the fact that this tease is an attempt to put as much of the time's slick advertising into the hands of as many readers as possible...it will be of interest to calculate the advertising revenues from this weeks magazine ( provided i get the damned paper )...it will all go into the archives as another example of the times goebbels-like stabs at grooming opinion to suit their needs...if politicians are whores ( and they are ) the bulk of journalists ( one assumes there is some integrity left in the trade..one also assumes they are not especially well read writers ) are their swinish stenographers.
mysteriously the n y times today ( my home delivery subscription is for friday through sunday so i wandered off to the starbucks on willowcreek to buy the only copy of the artifact they had ) included a four page pullout of precious canadian newsprint that featured two high resolution ( and distinctly unappealing ) photos of someone’s ears and the centerspread was criptically printed with block letters spelling out “ listen to the world. coming in 4 days. the new york times. magazine” with a more than obvious logo from general electric in the lower right…so what could this be? advertising for a new and exciting new sound system coming from the troubled company ( “grabbo’s coming soon! get it!” ) or is it ( and this is what i am inclined to think…as if you thought you weren’t going to get an opinion piece from me and, if you are reading this, aren’t familiar with my worldview ) some verbiage that touts the times ersatz populism along with some anti-trump “we aren’t elitist” apologetics that fits their corporate agenda by boosting their sunday sales and getting their slick advertising into the hands of more readership so they can justify their advertising rates…all with the collusion of general electric which needs some pr boost and has, no doubt., ponied up some cash for the right to brand itself as a “sensitive” and “inclusive” corporation…i have long advocated the stance that everyone ( without exception…you cannot sanitize things and expect to understand…something drearily lost on liberals…pc is thought control…framing the debate…well…i am brighter than that ) gets to tell their story and everyone has to listen…to humanize one another in our eyes…to find commonalities…to recognize the sameness that cultural differences cannot obscure…to make an honest effort to banish certainties and undermine the concept of “the other”…but i don’t advocate that in the name of corporate profit or to help reinforce a hegemonic viewpoint…information for profit is part of the problem…all explanation is reinterpretation…the n y times has an email newsletter called “the interpreter” which i subscribe to, to keep tabs on what the elite punditry thinks i should think…i read it but rarely believe it…i harbor a nietzschian distrust of interpreters.
