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Thoughtful.

An excellent presentation of a shrouded subject. Thank you for your time and concern.

posted by LeStina on January 23, 2003 at 9:46 AM | link to this | reply

Moving on (eventually) to countries and celebs is not something I'd really considered, but it's an interesting idea.

I have to say, though, that the current trend in 'celebrity', in the UK at least, leaves me cold. It's a weirdly inverted market here in that, if one could be bothered, one could go out and get celebrity status in an afternoon. Perhaps a bit longer. Yet the value placed on celebrity status has never been higher. It's like shit has suddenly become more valuable than gold. And that analogy is scarily accurate if you look at, say, the aborted product of Pop Idols (Hear'Say) compared to, oh, I dunno, the Rolling Stones. So with that rather jaded view, I reckon I'll be avoiding celebs in general, though there are certainly some out there who are different.

I really want to focus on folk who have something important to say, and who are not being allowed to say it. 

Wanna guess who's up next??

posted by DamonLeigh on January 22, 2003 at 8:26 PM | link to this | reply

Right on target

Damon, a very timely new blog...and I love the name! It seems there is a trend right now, more so than ever before, to turn on anyone who is going against the opinion of the majority. Demonized Darlings could eventually even profile countries and celebrities -- the list could go on.

Tucker Carlton on CNN just yesterday was going gangbusters after Bianca Jagger and her "celebrity friends" who're speaking out against war in Iraq. And I thought Dan Rather (I think it was him...I can never keep the network anchors straight) in Baghdad being interviewed by Larry King on CNN was an eye opener for all of us in the US since his comments humanized Iraqis as live, mortal, friendly people who like Americans and America. Hard to ignore Dan Rather even if you can ignore Sean Penn. :)

posted by Mihail on January 22, 2003 at 11:55 AM | link to this | reply