The Funny Farm

BlogSurfing On a Sunday Afternoon

Maybe it's because I've been sleeping like a baby this weekend (waking up screaming every two hours) and I've missed out on my usual blog surfing for the last several days. Maybe the dren has hit the oscillating aerial dispersal device a little too often lately and I haven't been able to clean the gunk off it yet. And maybe it's just that damned irony alert going off that is causing me to find this all interesting.

But I've just been on an intense winding blog surfing thread that has led to the Media Revolt Manifesto. This is a defining document, people. You all need to go read it. Now.

Needless to say (but we do anyway), the Funny Farm strongly endorses the sentiments therein and pledges to keep its' tongue planted firmly in cheek whilst trying to point you to some of the ways you can help make the media more than a propaganda arm of the elite.

As for the wild set of blog posts and the background material in all their links, you will probably need free subscriptions to the NYTimes, WashPost, and LATimes at the very least, to read everthing along the way. If you maybe think you should get into that whole making your own decision thing based on, you know, acquiring as much knowledge about what you're talking about as you can. And Earl Dunovant might be many things, including one of the most prolific bloggers out there, but I have not seen him advancing any partisan Afro American agenda that could be considered roughly analogous to David Duke. Or Michael the Savage Weiner or the Vile PigBoy or Ann Thraxx or any of the gazillion and one media whores spewing out Repugnicant propaganda over the earwaves lo these many years. He might occasionally be considered a slightly wryer version of Dennis Miller back when he was almost funny. When you get to read his own writings instead of the voluminous linkage he puts in his blog (which is a very instructional and helpful service to us when we can manage to make it there [cough]), that is.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go pry my eyelids open and put some more anti-pink-eye drops in them. Get out there and find the things that the corpo-weasels don't want you to see...

Posted by (: Tom :) at May 9, 2004 03:56 PM