@nils_gilman I recall a similar epiphany, sitting at a typewriter, in 1984. I got up, wandered down a corridor, knocked on a door, opened it, confronted a senior journalist, asked how many folk he reckoned truly grokked the global financial system. He paused, pondered. 'About 150', he said.
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3/ I don't wish to sound like a polemical ass, but the structures of consciousness and power dictating the defining story about the nature of reality 'own' the global attention span into the bargain. One Media Ecology, monetized and weaponized, in toto. How do we deal with this?
@RizomaSchool 2/ As a hack, barely an adult, I found myself lurking around the innermost sanctums of the highest reaches of global political economy and this, in the media capital of the world. In my mid-20's, savvy, but in defeated and devastated disarray, I cut and ran from the Corruption.
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And she and Rupert Murdoch were in cahoots. In London, he owned the most-read English-language newspaper in the world ("VOTE TORY THIS TIME" said the front-page headline on the day Thatcher was elected). And by the time I'd entered journalism a couple of years later, he had bought 'The Times' of London and was dismantling Fleet Street in earnest. Editors I knew were getting arm-twisted or fired. I remember marches alongside my office: the anti-Murdoch signs held by the print and journalism unions, soon to be smashed into irrelevancy. It was against this backdrop - the reshaping of the entire British media, economic and cultural landscape in the image of a hypercapitalist ethos - that my particular political, geographic and professional world of concerns - Big Money, Big Politics and Big Media - naturally led me to take more than a passing interest in the trajectory of Rupert Murdoch. I was an investigative financial journalist, after all.