this won't make much sense if you don't have the right background but it fits perfectly with my theory of 4chan as a compost heap, where all the cultural waste ends up, creating a super rich pile of crap from which new things grow.
http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/art-entertainment/lost-filth-simulacrum

11- i was sad to be informed that advertising is the "glue" holding media together. i dislike advertising on a pretty fundamental level, more than just "commercials suck." i'm starting to question capitalism in general, an idea for which advertising is the heart.

12- wait. WAIT WAIT. the bush administration sold propaganda as news? and it was illegal? and they were caught? but they kept doing it anyway??? HAS ANYBODY ELSE READ 1984? this is like a satire of what a cliche "big brother sneaky government" would do.

13- this book is shockingly subversive for a text book. i approve. the sections about the few corporations owning almost everything were shocking but factual. the section about hegemony and the control of common sense was just awesome icing on the cake.

HMMM!
(daily show)

i have no idea where i read this but one time i read that "men get off looking at women and women get off being looked at by men" which i think sums up the relationship between Cosmo and Maxim.

Maxim:
ALL MEN LIKE HOT BABES, VIDEO GAMES, AND POWER TOOLS.

Cosmo:
WOMEN LIKE MAKE-UP, PLEASING THEIR MAN, AND...HOT BABES?

humanity is doomed.

okay skutsch, try this one:
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/24-japan-questions-9-11-and-the-global-war-on-terror/

are the members of the Japanese parliament all just lonely conspiracy nuts too? make sure you read the whole thing.

things i learned:
Payola is a word which i had somehow never heard.
Little Richard was rock and roll's first drag queen? really?
i wonder how the ramones would feel about being in a text book chapter about "punk rock."

all of my experience with text books has been with really outdated editions talking about things like "electronic mail" and "new compact discs" so it's really surreal to read one that refers to the obama presidency and the Wii. it's good to see their just as cheesy as ever though.

top censored news stories

2009
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/
2008
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2008/

about one quarter of this video deals with the media, but the whole thing is important regardless.
http://www.storyofstuff.com/

MEDIA COLLISION

mad men stars on oprah.


young gay male mad men fans and their moms (oprah fans) accidentally watch the same show for the first time?

enlgsih

the irony here is so thick you could use it to smother one of the racist assholes near the middle of the list.

22 Misspelled Political Signs



INFROMED INFROMED INFROMED.

african amerigame

Minorities in Video Games:
http://kotaku.com/5358562/minority-report-the-non+white-gamers-experience

moral of the story: Hispanics and Blacks (saying African Americans doesn't work very well when one of the people interviewed is British) are under-represented in video games and actually like games that are not just shooters and sports games. apparently this is a surprise.

good point: positive black character included in Left4Dead without making it obvious or awkward. also Cole in Gears of War is basically giant blackface stereotype with gun.


seemed to forget: "would love it if there was a Square-produced RPG that had a brown protagonist."
SQUARE'S FINAL FANTASY 7 AND FINAL FANTASY 12 GAMES (most famous game franchise of all time besides mario maybe?) HAVE BLACK MAIN CHARACTERS.



though i guess it's way too soon to talk about gay video games characters, right?