Dinosaur Media

From Ad Age yesterday:

"It's been clear for a couple months that magazines were enduring an appalling start to the year..."

I can give an example of why no one wants to advertise in some magazines:




A magazine by senior citizens for senior citizens, clearly.

Nick Lachey - that cultural icon?
Pearl Jam? Springsteen? has the space time continuum altered in some way?
Bush = Dunce - the wit and wisdom of an unidentified, but take their word for it, "leading" historian - sorry but this cover is full of more rubbish that Weekly World News.

I got the cover from Drudge. I don't need to look at the ads, they'll be pornographic images for clothing and the ubiquitous ipod and up to the minute technology. Yawn.

I'd rather go over to Dr. Sanity, who really is fighting the good fight on this one:

"But what I do expect is some fundamental agreement on what the reality is."

"The left's current concensus view on terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, the war on terror and Freedom is flatly wrong and cannot be justified by the facts that are out there. Their rhetoric is designed to obfuscate and deny objective reality --which they don't even believe in to begin with (or, they believe in it until it become threatening then they seek refuge behind postmodern political rhetoric). The motivation for their continual Bush/Republican bashing is simple: Bush is the current symbol of their demise--the fly in their utopian ointment; the light shining in their darkness; or, to be more precise, the symbol of the end of their ideology."

"How do I know this? Since Bush's election at the millennium, things have been going very badly for the left. As the real world presses in on them, their voices have become more shrill and hysterical; their rage is escalating out of control. No longer do most of them even bother to argue their points logically; they simply loudly denounce any idea or person who threatens their worldview; or deliberately and with the ruthless finesse of all tyrants and thugs, simply attempt to supress all dissenting opinions."

"9/11 did not wake them up; rather it forced them to openly move toward what they have supported surreptitiously all along--the elimination of free speech in the name of political correctness and multiculturalism; a dictatorship where the pseudo-intellectual, politically correct priesthood rule; and complete control over the lives of others (for their own good, of course). Since their objectives dovetail nicely with those of the Islamic terrorists, they have made common cause with them and have not lost many opportunities to enable and encourage them, even as they denounce America and the principles of freedom and democracy."

"They pretend their actions are motivated from love and peace and patriotism; but this is only how they rationalize it to themselves. Their self-deception and denial is simply stunning in its sweeping grandiosity and self-righteousness betrayal of the good."

Everything she blogs about is stunning and in some ways kind of heartbreaking.

Blogs are changing the way we learn about the world. It's a slow process, drip, drip, drip. I'm proud to be a part of this new community of writers.

Of course there are stupid people in the world, and evil people. But they do not get to have power over me, or not in the way they did in the past.