Aftermath Entertainment

other communities or countries. Newscasters and meteorologists act as if they are celebrities, attractive, excessively cheerful, and personable, rather than intelligent, knowledgeable, or interested in informing the public. The distinction between entertainment and news has been severely blurred. We are troubled that our wealthy country still permits a quarter to a third of our children to grow up in poverty, which mires many of them in inadequacy and crime. And we do not provide adequate health care

history has forgiven him – with the help of Republican propaganda and collective amnesia. WOMAN: As it has Bill Clinton. Democrats’ propaganda? DAVID: Not really. Clinton’s mistake was not in what he did, which was minor, but in how he handled the aftermath. He lied under oath, before a grand jury, about his relationship with Paula Jones, one of his former employees in Arkansas. This was in 1998, during a successful presidential term. But what we really remember is his statement in a press conference

decrease in military expenditure in the United States and the reassertion of Congressional influence, the trend toward greater cultural militarization apparent in the glamor of hi-tech and ‘smart’ weaponry, and encouraged by state agencies and the entertainment industry, receives remarkably little critical attention in mainstream liberal thought. Since 2001, this cultural fetishization of the military has been superseded by the more overt geostrategic militarism of the Bush administration. Political economy