Like many people, I prefer JetBlue and Virgin to other airlines, even if the fare is a little more expensive, because they seem more interested in providing a good product so it's more fun to travel with them. The other airlines seem to want to provide an expected product. It feels the same with news -- Harpers, The Independent, CSPAN and shows like Bill Moyer's Journal feel like they are trying to provide a good product, while I think the Globe, New York Times, and the daily news shows (even PBS's News Hour) are trying to provide an expected product.
When I was growing up a friend of my parents said he never watched TV anymore. I was surprised that he would not want to watch even the good programs, even if he thought there were just a few. I get where he was coming from now, and wonder if the customization we now have to filter out commercials would have helped him. Tivo can be set up to only record from certain channels, so you only watch the channels and programs you like.
I recently watched ABC World News on TV for the first time in years, and noticed how crazily different it is from the news I'm used to now. I can't take it seriously. I think this means I'm elitist.
I'd like to make a news-aggregating web site to get trusted news. It wouldn't be right or left wing, conservative or liberal - it would be a platform to mix and match trusted articles and journalists from around the world, and to save one's custom newspaper under a name that others could find. You could read George Will's or George Clooney's newspaper because you trusted them, and get real news whatever your political position was.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
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why be an elitist, when you can be an oligarch!!!
Re: The poor airline and the Globe.
You’re an optimistic capitalist. More people are flying, which means, a wider array of demographics are flying, which means competition is gone, which equals poor service.
Re: CNN & FOX
You’re someone who yells out at the movie screen who done it. Spoiling the fantasy for everyone. Needless to say, the movie sucked anyways.
Re: the Independent
Your a foreigner, elitist here read the NYTimes. But not everyone that read the NYTimes is an elitist. But it is a nice prop elitist use to let everyone know that they are an elitist. Imagine the preceding in a stuffy, blue-blooded, Northeast accent; “I can’t go a day without the Times.” or “You can’t even get the Times in this town.”
Re: Whole Foods, Virgin
You can just afford that so why not. Others just don’t care.
Elitist in America like to watch and read things that non-elitist are aware of, but choose not to read, b/c they think that they are elitist think BORAT. George Will and Bill Moyer (a Southerner btw), is too obscure, unless you're trying to out-elite an elitist.
Point being, mix it around, break bread with the commoners (but don’t hang out with a black man just to get “cred,” that’s just obnoxious).
TV’s crap in general. You don’t have to be an elitist to know that.
But that said;
you might be an elitist if you laugh a little too loud at obscure Kirkegaard jokes during a Woody Allen movie at the Brattle.
Sadly, SS and I were thinking about writing about quasi-political blawg, you want in?
ps, I'm going back to watching the Wheel of Fortune.
by the way, there is a good article on elitism by George Will in last weeks Newsweek.
Hi Chris,
LOL at "sadly" above - Thanks, I read his article at http://www.newsweek.com/id/156348.
Haik
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