Media mesh!

Rupert Murdoch the media mogul has won a bid to buy the Dow Jones,the venerable independent financial daily run by the Bancroft family.In the Bahamas a similar thing is going on where two dailies have made a joint management agreement.Here in the Bahamas there is an outcry of a monopoly being created but only by a few individuals.

Deals such as these to me ,seem to weaken the "Fourth Estate".How can these media forms offer fresh unbiased opinions when one person writes their checks.In this age where public opinion is that the media has failed us all and has moved from giving us clear unbiased facts so that we can formulate opinions to trying to get us to think their way.

When will these situations,especially with Murdock be investigated.Aren't there anti monopoly laws in place?Or do they kick in after the fact that so many have been brainwash and an entire industry approaches near collapse because of the lack of competition.Something needs to be done before it is too late. We should not intrude on private business matters, but we must when it will greatly affect the general public in a negative way.A few should not make many suffer.

Wake up people!Organize!

Phones and hand jobs!

This week iPhone will be launched by Apple.It says to be the next innovative thing and its coming has been heralded like the coming of Christ. Apple is gaining ever so much on the evil Republic of technology i.e. Microsoft, and that is a good sign.

But there is something to be said about phone technology and how consumers are fascinated with this.It seems the cellphone business is one that is ever changing like its big brother the computer. Folks will line up a mile away and empty their life savings to be on the cutting edge.

I'm not hating on the cellphone makers,( I wish I had a business model like that),but I tend to only use a cellphone to make and receive calls.Texting is neat and beyond that I see no other need for all those features.Why would I want to browse the web on such a small screen to worsen my eyesight?All that fancy schmancy, stuff music and this and that with its crappy sound and stuff who needs it.

I am not anti technology but I believe that some tech's purpose is not to advance mankind but to advance a company's bottom line.No useful and practical purpose whatsoever.The cellphone jive is one of them.$500-$600 for a phone, now that's a high price hand job. Most of the time all you have to do is wait a month or two and the price becomes reasonable.


Besides my country's phone system can only handle so much and any Bahamian who would buy one would be a complete idiot and a phony( no pun intended) in my book.But hey,everyone has a right to be an idiot.So as you get your iPhone and you stroke it with your fingertips.Its vibration and sophisticated "bells and whistles" whip you into an orgasmic euphoria.Its smooth sleek design arouses all of your senses.Give me a call and please don't call collect!