we are beyond satire: BP oil spill movie coming soon!
Hoorah! The human spirit triumphs! No mention of all the dead marine life of the Gulf of Mexico and the destroyed economies of the Gulf Coast states. Such a downer!
Tony Hayward
question of the day: Is there still an as yet untapped potential for ubiquitous cameras to give power back to the public?
Wendy McElroy at Gizmodo recently posted a provocative essay entitled “Are Cameras the New Guns?” looking at the new pushback from local municipalities in the U.S. regarding civilians photographing apparent police abuse. McElroy writes: In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is … more…
Michael Sheen is *so* going to play Tony Hayward…
…in the BP oil spill movie, isn’t he?
question of the day: Have we finally entered the post-satire world?
I woke up this morning to the news that BP has requested that the hilarilous Twitter feed for “BP Public Relations” label itself a parody. It seemed, to my eyes, to be so obviously a parody that no one could mistake it for the real thing, but BP felt otherwise. Via MediaBistro: Twitter VP communications … more…
watch it: the 6/5/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Is this it? It the Gulf Coast dead, not just environmentally but economically? No amount of money could ever fix that, but why don’t we just dissolve BP and spread its money around to the areas and the people affected? If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court recently said they are, and if the … more…
