Rock & Roll and Language (was: 70s crap)

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

sojourner at vt.edu writes:
> We are consumers of media.  It makes a profit and we buy it.  It might be
> advertised, hawked
> or put out for your temptation, but it is YOU who buys it and YOU who sets
> what the standards
> of the products you buy.  If you don't want it, don't buy it.

Capitalism redux. Power lies not in the barrel of a gun but in the
greenbacks (finest fruit of the Civil War) in your pocket. And what's
the product being hawked here? Information?

I hope the Murdochs of this world are not laughing too loudly. And
that Thomas Pynchon is not despairing of his efforts to elucidate.


Andrew Dinn
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We drank the blood of our enemies.
The blood of our friends, we cherished.