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'##::::'##:::'#####:::'########: VIVA LA REVOLUCION! CERDO DEL CAPITALISTA!!
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##:::: ##:'##:::: ##: ##::::::: THE HELOTS OF ECSTASY PRESS RELEASE #464 !!
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#########: ##:::: ##: ######::: ZIEGO VUANTAR SHALL BE MUCH VICTORIOUS! !!
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##:::: ##:. ##:: ##:: ##::::::: "Mass Media" !!
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##:::: ##::. #####::: ########: by -> Reflecks !!
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..:::::..::::.....::::........:: 1/27/99 !!
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!!========================================================================!!
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Baby held responsible for 7-11 robbery.
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President kidnapped from in front of grocery store.
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17 year old kid to lead country to war.
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Sensationalism, Sensationalism, Sensationalism.
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Call it yellow press, tabloid news, or pulitzer-prize winning
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material. it is the stuff the brave new world is made of. We thrive on
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information which has nothing to do with us. We want to know what is
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happenning to 74-year-old bingo players in Florida. We like war. We
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like peace. We like death. We like life.
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We want headlines.
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What is with this dreaded thirst for news? The news which we get
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has absolutely nothing to do with us. In all frankness, I am not so
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affected by brush fires in wichita or robberies in quebec that I must
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learn of it from a slew of media vendors. a common example at the moment
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of people receiving an overflow of useless information is the clinton
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thingie in washit-town.
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For one thing, far too many people have far too many soapboxes.
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Cable news, wire news, radio news (AM, FM, shortwave?), television news
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(broadcast alone). Newspapers, magazines, tabloids (they shouldn't even
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count as magazines). Then word of mouth.
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Back in the day, word of mouth was pretty much the only way news
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got around. People in one country wouldn't hear of a death in another
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part of the world. And so they were happy. Ignorance is Happiness, to
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an extent. Sure, word wouldn't get around to australia that there was a
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polio vaccine. crocodile dundee wasn't all that great, anyways.
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But maybe it would.
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News of great importance usually manages to get to those it
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touches.
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Introducing a semi-new concept, I introduce the Worldly Bubble.
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The Worldly Bubble is defined as what we see and hear and all
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that. When we introduce the world (woes, troubles, and wars) into our
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Worldly Bubble, we get so much to sift through that it becomes impossible
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to eat a burger without thinking of the poor ethopian boy, Ngopopo. We,
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in turn, let ourselves be so moved by Ngopopo that we turn our Worldly
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Bubble into a mirror of the other-Worldly Bubbles.
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Famine, Hunger, Death, Civil War for Ngopopo!
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That, or we turn ourselves into apathetic mass media-hating
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mongrels. I don't care about the kids, beat the seals, bomb the
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cambodians! See if I care!
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And then there are the rare gems of Worldly Bubbles. The ones who
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get off their fat Fritos-eating asses, jump on their own soapbox, and
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actually rally a crowd up. they get them so foamy at the mouth and so
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teary eyed that they raise donations for the food, for the boxes, for the
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clothes, for the plane and the pilot to fly the relief supplies across the
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world to ethiopia and feed that starving child. at least they tried.
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Maybe they succeeded. Maybe Ngopopo turned into a civil rights leader
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in the country he was exiled in to. Maybe he made a change for the better
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and actually changed the governments and made it better so his people
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wouldn't BE starving and wouldn't BE dying. Maybe he did what those
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Twinkie eating lard asses did and he changed the system, not just oiled
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the squeaky gear.
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As heart warming as the story is, I made it up. There is no
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Ngopopo (okay, now, all at once -- "awww!!!")
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My point, as deluded and self-defying as it is, is that I would
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rather see more world news and less local news in the mass-mass-media
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circuits.
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Local bradcast news < PEZ
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(Eh. but what isn't?). Anyways. yeah.
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I'd rather eat my burger than watch the Red Shoe Diaries of a
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local politician. Viva la thirty-nine cent Wednesdays! Or something.
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!!========================================================================!!
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #464, WRITTEN BY: REFLECKS - 1/27/99 !!
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