Wednesday, March 18, 2020

POST REMOVED STAND BY & MANUFACTURING CONSENT REEXAMINED

Plans for courts are changing. We jumped the gun. We took thelast  post down and we will post the update when court closing plans have been finalized. 

Meanwhile consider this missive from the ever introspective yet ebullient Judge Milt Hirsch:

"They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences."
                            -- Albert Camus, The Plague

And  speaking of Judge Hirsch, no love lost between he and 1970's intellectual Noam Chomsky. With time on our hands, we are re-reading Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward Herman and the aforementioned Noam Chomsky. 

As Judge Moreno would query- "what say you" to the authors' proposition that the mass communication media are in and of themselves powerful ideological institutions that publicize a systemic propaganda function controlled by consumer based market demands? 

In otherwords, it's everything President Trump means when he says "fake media" without ever considering the ideas espoused in Manufacturing Consent, and of course having never read the book. 



2 comments:

  1. We need Slom as coivd czar and we need him now. Please send the bat signal to North Carolina or wherever he is.
    Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.

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  2. He has returned to "AL E. GATOR. He does that better than he did as a judge in Kangeroo Kourt.

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