Ah, how I love intelligent, poignant writers. Leslie Savan's article is a blast to read. She points out in the very beginning, how Media acts as a dispersant1, much like the toxic chemicals that were dropped on the BP oil-spill. She notes that these "dispersants", while clearing away top layers of the oil slick, kills all life underneath it.2 Wow, what a metaphor. But why so angry Savan?
Leslie Savan is a three-time Pulitzer Prize Finalist, She has been a contributor to a vast number of resources, such as: The New York Times, and The Huffington Post. She now writes for an Online News Blog called, The Nation.Though she takes many Liberal stances on most political issues, her intentions lie more into a passionate "call to attention" to issues that are consistently unaddressed, and have little reference from which to draw from. Savan backs her articles up with various links, exact dates and videos of quotes, that support her writings.
Considering this article, Media as a 'Toxic' Dispersant, Savan states how media had supported the move to Off-Shore Drilling just a couple weeks, and even days BEFORE the Deepwater-Horizon Disaster. She even finds a quote of President Barack Obama, endorsing the safety and probabilities of off-shore drilling. She goes on to make the argument that Obama practically sold the seat for the Department of the Interior to a little known oil-advocate named, Ryan Salazar. Thus, connecting the corruption between government and the oil companies. But how does Savan relate the media to all this?
The Media, Savan, declares as "Toxic", destroying all in its wake, in the very cover up, the very smoke and mirrors that make up the aftermath of the incident, how is it that we get distracted by certain extraordinary disaster? Savan outright declares that the Oil Companies, Media Companies, and Government Committee Programs are all run by the same group. But I think it's worth more informative research. The links in this particular article are ambiguous, and some of the statements she makes need some serious backing up. Such as: "...even with documented evidence that the regulators had accepted gifts, sex, drugs, and huge amounts of cash from the industry for years..." What regulators, I'm asking?
Still, Savan, makes a great argument for successfully linking the Government and Media as working together towards a similar goal, perhaps the corporate media is there at the Governments disposal, most notably for the conservatives, but I still feel Savan doesn't touch the broader expanse of what she is actually saying. Meaning, calling the "Corporate Media a Toxic Dispersant" for covering up the politicians endorsements of Off-Shore Drilling is viable, but it is more simple than this to point out.
Let me ask you this; seriously.
Do you as a persons living in America get the idea that you are being forced to listen to bullshit politics such as Tiger Woods and his oppressively horny lifestyle? Do BP Commercials make you feel anything at all? I think Savan is really trying hard to state how the BP oil spill is just another Media Circus show, but the ideas that are being incepted go on for miles. Savan only just grazes how it [the media] became so disastrous with the outrageous incidences the Bush administration were a part of. She talks about how the gaps between political parties are caused by media, but this belief, that we are a divided nation, is what is killing us.
You and me, we can get even older with this Media-craze if we want to. When Clinton had a failed missile attack against Afghanistan in 1993, Osama Bin Laden managed to capture the failed missiles, reverse engineer them, and use them against us later during the Bush Administration's War on Terror.3 But what did you hear of this? Probably nothing so similar, by the time that Clinton was dealing with foreign relations to absolve this situation; was right around the same time the Monica Lewinsky scandal ripped away any other attention you may have been giving to anything else.
| If I could put verbal inflection into written text. |
THIS! This stated above situation is all anyone needs to know, to know how Toxic the media can be. What the Corporate Media can do and how far they can go seems never-ending. As important issues can constantly be pushed under, I believe this is Savan's attempt to clap her hands and stomp her feet for anyone to listen to the great points, and great finds regarding issues that surround us everyday!
Resource links and Footers:
1: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30158418/
2: http://www.prisonplanet.com/scientists-40-times-more-cancer-causing-toxics-in-gulf-than-before-spill-dispersants-to-blame.html
3: http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2000/09/clintons-failed-missile-defense-policy
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