-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alberto M. Giordano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
August 12, 2002 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleagues, Narco News today declares Marshall Mathers, a.k.a. Slim Shady, a.k.a. Eminem as Journalist-of-the-Year 2002. Think we're kidding? Absolutely not. As Issue #23 of The Narco News Bulletin begins, journalism "is in a state of 911." The eleven months since September 11, 2001, have brought commercial journalism's worst, most simulating, and most knowingly dishonest, year in modern history. With VERY few exceptions - and you know who you are, so you won't mind our saying it - the people who call themselves "journalists" have cowered in fear during the past 11 months. They haven't asked the right questions, nor offered decent answers to the post-9/11 syndrome and its consequences gripping the population in the United States of America and elsewhere. That it took a popular rap singer-songwriter to meet the deadline that commercial journalists feared to meet... that it took Marshall Mathers to offer the counter-discourse to the official lies that too many members of our profession did not... is a damning indictment on the journalism industry in our era. But the good news, kind readers, is that the youth see through the bullshit: Marshall Mathers' latest album - "The Eminem Show" - is now the top-selling music album in human history. This is not an advertisement (we don't even know the guy). But we make our arguments for why this unexpected voice has outdone even the journalists at journalism in the year 2002 in our essay published today: Eminem's Antidote to September 11th: The Rapper "With a Plan to Ambush this Bush Administration" Conquers the Music Charts http://www.narconews.com/ Our essay today naming Mr. Mathers as Journalist-of-the-Year includes a "Parental Advisory Sticker" because it contains lyrics that might offend your parents, or your editors, like these ones: "So to the parents of America/I am the derringer/aimed at little Erica/to attack her character/the ringleader of this circus of worthless pawns/Sent to lead the march right up to the steps of Congress and piss on the lawns/of the White House/and to burn the flag and replace it with a Parental Advisory Sticker/to spit liquor in the face in this democracy of hypocrisy/Fuck you, Ms. Cheney! Fuck you Tipper Gore! Fuck you with the freest of speech this divided states of embarrassment will allow/Fuck you!" -- from Marshall Mathers, "White America" Narco News, the first Internet newspaper to win protection under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution from the New York Supreme Court - and working overtime to extend those rights to all - today congratulates Marshall Mathers for having earned the honor of Journalist-of-the-Year 2002. Today we offer our reasons why, and we offer our readers the opportunity, as always, to send letters-to-the-editor expressing your opinions on this report, pro or con, and to comment on the state of journalism, post-9/11. from somewhere in a country called Am�rica, Al Giordano Publisher The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscr�bete gratis para alertas de reportajes nuevos: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
