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Jun. 8th, 2008 07:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheEver since I came into contact with the idea of psychohistory, I've begun picking up on things in the media that alarm me.
I have heard "assassination" so many times, it's not funny. When was the last time we had an RFK retrospective? I don't remember one, because he was always in the shadow of his brother.
I've heard news pundits use terms like "pull the trigger" and "put a gun to his head" (the latter actually specifically referencing Obama, using figurative language).
I've seen a lot more stories about how racism used to be in the 1920s and '30s. Turner Classic Movies just ran a short from that time period featuring mainly African-Americans, including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, called "King for a Day" (the running gag was that black men sure liked to throw dice!).
The History Channel ran a repeat of "Illegal Drugs: Cocaine". Some of it was a very interesting retrospective of how cocaine was added to just about everything and was seen as a wonder drug at first, but it made a point that it wouldn't have been made illegal had it not been for Southern newspapers making a ruckus about "cocaine-crazed Negroes."
The media is controlled by a small handful of folks. They must understand what they are doing.
I have heard "assassination" so many times, it's not funny. When was the last time we had an RFK retrospective? I don't remember one, because he was always in the shadow of his brother.
I've heard news pundits use terms like "pull the trigger" and "put a gun to his head" (the latter actually specifically referencing Obama, using figurative language).
I've seen a lot more stories about how racism used to be in the 1920s and '30s. Turner Classic Movies just ran a short from that time period featuring mainly African-Americans, including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, called "King for a Day" (the running gag was that black men sure liked to throw dice!).
The History Channel ran a repeat of "Illegal Drugs: Cocaine". Some of it was a very interesting retrospective of how cocaine was added to just about everything and was seen as a wonder drug at first, but it made a point that it wouldn't have been made illegal had it not been for Southern newspapers making a ruckus about "cocaine-crazed Negroes."
The media is controlled by a small handful of folks. They must understand what they are doing.