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Friday, November 09, 2001
Page note: I'm thinking about starting up Hotel A again. A new, improved, useful page of happiness.
18:59
Bonus quote: "That's what you got to do with that computer. You gotta treat it like a woman. Whatever makes it happy." -- Chris, my boss
18:57
Tuesday, November 06, 2001
Random thoughts: So, one of my professors analyzes and critiques the media. Or so he says. But really, he just slams newspapers, television and magazines, from the New York Times on down, for having corporate interests and being government mouthpieces. Before we started talking about journalism in class the other day, he was saying how it's not constructive to just say that racism is bad, you have to understand how it works and why it works. I think, Mr. Professor, that the same thing should apply for the media. You can just discredit it and say it sucks, and that there's ethnocentrism and inaccuracies, but that's not exactly giving us any new information. In fact it closes off the whole dialogue. Instead, we could probably solve a lot more by asking why this situation exists. Because if he knew any journalists, he might find that it's not actually the reporters who have these corporate interests and wish to report the government line. There's something intrinsic in the framework of the state-public-media relationship itself.
13:37
See what classes I could take: Northwestern class search
13:28
Update: I saw Cake last night, downtown... my memory reeled back to dancing on the tables in the journalism lab in high school, to "I Will Survive." The crowd was weirdly homogenous -- I guess that's like any concert, but I'm not usually the overwhelmingly represented group. I mean, people were even dressed exactly like me and the people I came with, in hooded sweatshirts and garage-sale ringer t-shirts. Ok, it's not so original, but still. And I realized that I don't so much like Cake anymore. They seemed cooler when I thought of them as this bunch of drunken slackers sitting in a garage in California recording Fashion Nugget. On stage they seemed to actually be arrogant.
13:24
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