Thursday, 05 March 2009

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  When I originally started designing my weblog, one of the featured questions asked, "Why is our society so obsessed with celebrities?" The answer is that it's part of the plan to keep us distracted and entertained so that we become complacent about the real issues in our lives.I also sometimes watch celebrity news shows, but for a different reason than most. It seems that these shows have become obsessed with destroying celebrities' lives and livelihoods to increase their ratings. Especially those of people of color. In some instances, the opposite has been the result; the controversy has made some celebrities even more popular. In fact, I have included an entertainment news feed in this blog, so that the reader can get celebrity news without all of the tabloidism seen on television. Much of the material I read online about the Illuminati, most of it dated prior to 9/11, referred to the media as being "controlled." Yes it is to a certain extent; however, I have to admit, recently the television news shows have been instrumental in helping put a more transparent slant on the stories about our government and intelligence agencies. I attribute this to the fact that the general public has been clamoring for change in the climate of business as usual among the politicians and policy makers. That and the changing paradigm in how people get their news. The internet now allows people to customize the daily news content they receive and get paid for doing so. There still remains the problem of the media landscape being dominated by huge corporations. Most of what we view on network television, cable and satellite is determined by the Big Six - General Electric, TimeWarner, Walt Disney, News Corp, CBS and Viacom. The same is true of much of what we read in print, and increasingly on the internet. I asked the question in this blog, "do you think the internet should be censored?" because that is something I have faced almost daily, and also because Congress is considering H.R. 1955, passage of which could possibly lead to people being labeled "domestic terrorists" for expressing their political viewpoints in online forums such as blogs.  

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