jku
07-24-2003, 03:07 PM
Some interesting news stories/quotes out there today from the American cultural bedrock:
"The failure here was that the news media got to thinking the government could be trusted to reflect reality," said Carolyn Marvin, professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.
"It no longer matters in America whether something is true or false. The population has been conditioned to accept anything: sentimental stories, lies, atomic bomb threats," said John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's magazine.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3136023
Hunter S. Thompson ("Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas" author) on Bush:
"They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree. It is genuinely incredible. The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap war in
Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgivable sin in America. Big darkness, soon come. Take my word for it."
On Kobe:
"You thought O.J. (Simpson) was bad? Wait until we get a taste of (this) scandal. It will be like a feeding frenzy and a long parade of cannibals. The
more I learn about this case, the more I understand that this is not about rape at all. It
is about money, pure money and nothing else. Nobody is going to jail in this case, but some people are going to pay."
"The failure here was that the news media got to thinking the government could be trusted to reflect reality," said Carolyn Marvin, professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication.
"It no longer matters in America whether something is true or false. The population has been conditioned to accept anything: sentimental stories, lies, atomic bomb threats," said John MacArthur, the publisher of Harper's magazine.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3136023
Hunter S. Thompson ("Fear and Loathing in Las
Vegas" author) on Bush:
"They somehow managed to blow it all, like a gang of kids on a looting spree. It is genuinely incredible. The U.S. Treasury is empty, we are losing that stupid, fraudulent chickencrap war in
Iraq, and every country in the world except a handful of corrupt Brits despises us. We are losers, and that is the one unforgivable sin in America. Big darkness, soon come. Take my word for it."
On Kobe:
"You thought O.J. (Simpson) was bad? Wait until we get a taste of (this) scandal. It will be like a feeding frenzy and a long parade of cannibals. The
more I learn about this case, the more I understand that this is not about rape at all. It
is about money, pure money and nothing else. Nobody is going to jail in this case, but some people are going to pay."