What Makes the News, and What Doesn't

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Posted on 12/21/2024 8:33:37 AM PST by Rummyfan

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Did you ever see that show "Girls"? Nah, me neither. It attracted an audience of 500,000, in a land of over three hundred million. If I'd pulled half-a-mil guest-hosting for Hannity or Tucker, never mind Rush, I'd never have worked again. And yet Lena Dunham, the presiding eminence of "Girls", was profiled endlessly by a doting media as if she was the biggest thing since, oh, Dinah Shore. Or Eddie Cantor. Or Ukulele Ike.

The point isn't Lena Dunham or Gregg Wallace, Ellen DeGeneres or Matt Lauer, all of whom are very disposable. The point is to maintain the overall apparatus of what Veronica calls "distraction", so that nothing that matters ever gets a look-in. That's true of politics, too, which is mostly palace intrigue about people who matter even less than Miss Dunham - what I used to refer to on GB News as 24/7 speculation about "who's going to be next week's Lord Privy Seal".

All together now: as I wrote twenty years ago ...whoops, my mistake, as I wrote a mere fifteen years ago:

If you've read A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, you'll recall that Hank Morgan, the eponymous time-travelling New Englander, was much taken by the Court Circular published each week in Camelot:

On Monday, the king rode in the park.

'" Tuesday, " " " " " " ".

'" Wednesday, " " " " " " ".

'" Thursday, " " " " " " ".

'" Friday, " " " " " " ".

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1 posted on 12/21/2024 8:33:37 AM PST by Rummyfan

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