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Hey Folks –
The Uke Man is back from the “Ukulele Caravan” tour. It was FANTASTIC !!
I’m recovering and catching up – I will have some videos and stills at some point – gotta let the muscles, joints, and brain decompress a bit before I get back up to speed. For now, here’s a comment:
At the end of the tour and visiting with my friends Ron and Quincy, I made my way to the Newark, New Jersey airport, wormed through the TSA checkpoint, and plopped down in the vinyl seat at Gate 109a. CNN was on the unavoidable big-screen TV.
The earnest talking heads were going on and on and on about something. The banner at the screen’s bottom announced that whatever it was it was going on RIGHT THEN!!!!
As I was gradually drawn into the “excitement” it appeared to be something like the OJ car “chase” – whoopee!! “China” kept being mentioned – then “THE TORCH”!!! Oh, my Dog!!! Someone was threatening THE TORCH!!!
It seems it was in San Francisco and of such importance that the police were changing routs and CNN was providing continuous coverage, prattling on about “human rights” and the “political” ramifications, etc., etc., etc.
Retch!!
There it was: extravagant coverage of a dispute between a Capitalist dictatorship ("Communist" China) and the displaced elites of an exploitative feudal system (Tibet) - made out to be of earth-shaking, dramatic consequence. Yet, a while back when Ukuleles for Sanity joined thousands to protest George Bush and the Republican National Convention in New York City (where I had just spent a week), the media yawned.
What crap!
You decide. Which is more important?? The havoc Duhbya has wrought? or the fucking Olympic Torch? The war or the ascendancy of the Dali Lama?
The media can't solve our problems. They serve the problems.
- Uke Man
The Uke Man is back from the “Ukulele Caravan” tour. It was FANTASTIC !!
I’m recovering and catching up – I will have some videos and stills at some point – gotta let the muscles, joints, and brain decompress a bit before I get back up to speed. For now, here’s a comment:
At the end of the tour and visiting with my friends Ron and Quincy, I made my way to the Newark, New Jersey airport, wormed through the TSA checkpoint, and plopped down in the vinyl seat at Gate 109a. CNN was on the unavoidable big-screen TV.
The earnest talking heads were going on and on and on about something. The banner at the screen’s bottom announced that whatever it was it was going on RIGHT THEN!!!!
As I was gradually drawn into the “excitement” it appeared to be something like the OJ car “chase” – whoopee!! “China” kept being mentioned – then “THE TORCH”!!! Oh, my Dog!!! Someone was threatening THE TORCH!!!
It seems it was in San Francisco and of such importance that the police were changing routs and CNN was providing continuous coverage, prattling on about “human rights” and the “political” ramifications, etc., etc., etc.
Retch!!
There it was: extravagant coverage of a dispute between a Capitalist dictatorship ("Communist" China) and the displaced elites of an exploitative feudal system (Tibet) - made out to be of earth-shaking, dramatic consequence. Yet, a while back when Ukuleles for Sanity joined thousands to protest George Bush and the Republican National Convention in New York City (where I had just spent a week), the media yawned.
What crap!
You decide. Which is more important?? The havoc Duhbya has wrought? or the fucking Olympic Torch? The war or the ascendancy of the Dali Lama?
The media can't solve our problems. They serve the problems.
- Uke Man
posted by Ukulele Man at 9:09 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Tom,
Welcome back!! Sounds as if you had a great trip. Yes, the torch carrying crisis was everywhere. Good reason to turn OFF the TV. Sondra
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