What's news?
In this day and age of immediate gratification of all matters ,in a New York City instant at that , it makes good sense that the gathering and disemination of news follow this modern model. Immediate and accurate! In Cleveland , Ohio 2008 , we still approach this instantaneous news model as if we are the early twentieth century model T automobile , slowing down traffic in all lanes , all the time. Propaganda or perish says da p.d. In the sad case of da p.d. pausing only long enough from their propaganda anticts to slander and villify whatever target they choose , instead of concentrating on the real time business of objective reporting. Take the sad case of da p.d. and Dennis Kucinich as example ...... Having stopped the other evening to visit my pal the cheeze , and grab a cup of his dark brew coffee , prior to reporting to work the midnight trick .I was seated amid a small group of intimate souls at his public house , sipping my cup of joe when some young feminine Broadwview Heights resident bearing a close resemblence to Ann Coulter in eyeglasses brought up the subject of Dennis Kucinich. She was bad rapping away at Dennis , while a few chairs down the cheeze was attempting to introduce a writer who was in the process of self publishing a rather hillarious themed lavendar fictional series of letters as an account of a gay Confederate Civil War regiment and their sacrifices on the battlefield at Gettysburg. One word here shoud suffice. Weird! Perhaps salable , but nonetheless weird. The split screen was maddening to my ears. Here is some funny little bearded fellow in a tiny odd brimmed second hand hat , carrying on about printing a series of gay themed letters involving Confederate Civil war losses , and at the same time and space the spexy Ann Coulter wannabe telling all who would listen how embarrased she was to have to put up with the likes of Dennis Kucinich and his flying saucer tales......The coffee I was sipping kicked in and I asked the spexy one if she read or subscribed to da p.d.? "Of course" , was her reply. I shook my head. Enough said , said I. It was perhaps the information you gleamed from da p.d. that could be considered your source of opinion formed concerning Mister Kucinich? I queried. Spexy waffled , coughed a bit , and then spit it out. " Yes , but of course , I read all about how embarrassing Dennis Kucinich is to Cleveland , Ohio in the plain dealer , I really despise him and his flying saucers." I chuckled and told her I did not know which was funnier , the buggery Civil War letters concocted from the little odd hatted fellow , or the insipid lies printed as half truths in da p.d. concerning Dennis Kucinich...... So whats news? Da p.d. has been out to cook Kucinich's goose since the late 1970's. I see reruns in my head of da p.d. as the wily coyote figure that is constantly attempting to trap or harm Kucinich , and Dennis as the roadrunner just ducks the " acme brand " traps set by da p.d. every last time and escapes with a little " beep , beep" , and takes off victorious. Just as Dennis will prevail in the up and coming Democratic Primary for the tenth congressional seat he serves as incumbent. The real gallows humor here is that for all the profligate efforts to discredit Mister Kucinich that da p.d. has extended to date , it has it's desired dire effects caused on the opinions formed concerning Kucinich's character in the mind of our spexy Ann Coulter type. Da p.d. continues to hammer away at Kucinich , while propping up a candidate headed for a certain loss in the likes of Joe Cimperman. Cimperman will take this loss and like it. Happy with the fact that near $300,000 , will have been spent on negative television advertisment in an attempt to discredit Kucinich and create a candidacy for Cimperman. As for the funny little guy with his Civil War tales , like the tar baby , he " said nothing". Personally , I believe that Harvey Pekar is an embarrassment to Cleveland , Ohio. My opinion , formed no doubt by the likes of having read da p.d.'s accounts of Harvey on the David Letterman show some years ago. I do not repeat that thought often however , after acknowledging the source of my media inspired opinion. Only when the likes of gay Civil War letters and Dennis Kucinich flying saucer tales are being knocked about over late night coffee and in the thread of the same conversation would I blurt out the dirt on Harvey. Wonder what was in that coffee anyway? Sure was strong. Book Selling Time! William Clarke Quantrill ws a Confederate Civil War antihero whose murderous exploits during the battle for the Republic are well documented in Duane Schultz's QUANTRILL'S WAR . Three hundred thirty eight pages , and quite a bargain at $5.90! I promise no civil war confederate lavendar brigades will show up in these pages. No nasty half truths about Cleveland area politicians either. As for da p.d. and it's current approach to seling news. Good luck! Newspapers are hemmoraging double digit fiscal losses yearly , and the dead tree printed media faces an uncertain future at best amid the younger generations. Perhaps if da p.d. concentrated more on objective quality reporting instead of dabbling in politics they would find some journalistic success. If not send out for the guy in the funny hat with his gay Civil War letters. his fictitious letters are certainly on par with da p.d.'s humorous attempts to discredit Dennis Kucinich in print these thirty plus odd years. Beep , beep your ass p.d.!
Labels: Cleveland Ohio, Dennis Kucinich, Harvey Pekar, Media
posted by Mark Stueve @ 7:41 AM
Screamin' Jay Hawkins