Things I'm Annoyed At Being Made To Pay Attention To Lately

[muckefuck]

1. Tracy Morgan Didn't have a clue who he was two days ago and didn't feel I was missing a thing. (I live in a cave where broadcast television does not penetrate.) But after my FB feed started bubbling with outrage, I began checking to see what kind of non-apology apology would be forthcoming.
2. That article in the Grid As someone summed it up in ontd_political: "White cis men discover that they don't have to give a fuck, news at eleven." Whatever it takes to sell ad space, right brunorepublic?
3. Weiner's wiener Some kid was ranting about this into his cellphone on the shuttle this morning. Day Two of this scandal and I was already thinking, "I'm so glad we don't have anything important to worry about, like civil wars in the Arab World, killer bacteria, or an economy still in free fall."

Comments

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

come to France! I hadn't heard about any of these - except Weiner, via lj. OTOH, Sarkozy.

[mollyc-q.livejournal.com]

1) Morgan's Character of late on 30 Rock has been a recurring joke about the narcissism and self-importance of the entertainment industry, go figure. How the hell out of touch with media does one have to be not have encountered either the Trevor Project or the "It Gets Better..." campaign to think this acceptable in conversation much less on a stage? Nashville is hot bed of entrenched intolerance on a number of fronts, I have to wonder how the story broke and what kind of reaction the audience had.

Sadly, in light of all this, the show has its moments, its like 30 minutes of non-mechanical comedy that I am not expecting on network television. The show is likely in its last season (Fey and Baldwin have spoken of moving on in the last few monts). Fey while not throwing him to the people she acknowledged as justifiably enraged (herself included), Fey's condemnation of Morgan's remarks are such that she's trying to leave some kind of redemptive possibility alive. This is the same woman who with Lorne Michaels staged an intervention for a Hollywood starlet that's been in and out of rehab ever since.

Thing is I am okay with having him written off, most of the last season his absence was a running gag. And various boards have lit up screaming for a boycott until he does, better him than entire cast and crew unemployed.

2) Cannot find the reference to the article.

3) While, I'd love a two-for where we get rid of David Vitter as well; I'd settle for attention to the prospect of meaningful coverage of the Debt Ceiling Battle plunging us into the Great Depression where Big Business can finally terrorize the labor pool into submission, starvation and silence. I'd also love to know where the lethal contamination in the food supply chain is and what the hell is going on all over the middle east. I may abandon nearly all platforms except the BBC and my return to a select few magazine sites.

And I'd like to add 4) the Sarah Palin Email glut. Really, of the investigative journalism that is in desperate need of being done, this what you people are fixating on?