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Morning Edition - January 3
Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!
Today's newsletter includes:
RIP Joe Clark
"Huckabee" Preview
Refreshing to hear
Teach your children well
"GILLIGAN" Star Dawn Wells Dies
Readers comment: Georgia senate testimony on election fraud
By Pat Reeder
Retired high school principal Joe Clark died Tuesday at 82 at his home in Florida after a long battle with an unspecified illness.
During the '80s, Clark became nationally famous for his tough love approach to education. He turned around one of the worst schools in New Jersey, expelling 300 students in one day to get crime and drugs under control. He painted over graffiti, chained the doors shut against criminals and required students to know and sing the school song on demand. He was also famous for patrolling the halls with a bullhorn and a baseball bat. In a statement, his family said, "Steadfast in his approach, Clark explained that the bat was not a weapon but a symbol of choice: a student could either strike out or hit a home run."
Liberals assailed him for instilling discipline in public school, but President Reagan offered him a White House policy adviser position. The public gave its verdict when "Lean On Me," a movie of his story starring Morgan Freeman as Clark, became a major hit and audiences gave it a rare Cinemascore rating of A+.
Here are some remembrances of Clark from Morgan Freeman, who called him a father figure to the kids and "the best of the best in terms of education."
It's a new year (at last!), and we'll kick it off right tonight with a great new episode of "Huckabee" on TBN. My guests include House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and pastor/TV host/author Sam Collier. You'll meet a Huck's Hero whose miraculous salvation from addiction inspired her to help other women out of the trauma of addiction, violence and trafficking. We'll also have plenty of laughs from cowboy comedian William Lee Martin, and take a look back at some moments from 2020 that are really worth remembering. And we'll cap it off with the music of hot young country singer, Riley Green!
It all starts tonight at 9 EST/8 CST, on TBN. To find out where you can watch TBN, from local cable and broadcast channels to streaming, visit https://www.huckabee.tv and click on "Channel Finder" on the top menu. You can stream previous episodes, highlights and online-only "Digital Exclusives," including extended interviews, "In Case You Missed It" and "Facts of the Matter" segments, and extra performances by our great musical and comedy guests, all at https://www.huckabee.tv. You can also find past shows, highlights and digital exclusives on YouTube and my Facebook page.
A lot of people who had nothing to do with the rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine – and who mocked President Trump for saying it would happen – are now brimming with suggestions for who should get it first: other nations, non-whites, "essential workers," and of course, themselves (we all know how essential Democrat politicians are.) That's why it was so refreshing to hear what Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in explaining why he would not cut the line to get the vaccine before Florida's elderly population does:
"I'm willing to take it, but I am not the priority, they're the priority. I'm under 45. People under 45 are not going to be first in line for this, so when it's my turn, I will take it. I want my parents, our grandparents to be able to get it. I'm an elected official, but whoop-dee-doo. At the end of the day, let's focus where the risk is."
"I'm an elected official, but whoop-dee-doo" is not merely the quote of the day, in a year in which too many elected officials acted as if they were kings, gods or dictators, it might be the quote of the year.
Can you guess who wrote this tweet? "Who are Mitch McConnell's neighbors? I'm just saying Rand Paul's neighbor did what a true Kentucky hero should do. It's your turn to step up."
That's right: it was the 2019 "National Teacher of the Year."
To refresh your memory, Sen. Paul was physically assaulted by a neighbor while working in his yard. He suffered six broken ribs and had part of his lung removed. The neighbor was sentenced to a total of nine months in jail, a $10,000 fine, community service and $580,000 in punitive damages. You know, like a hero.
When his tweet sparked the predictable outraged response, the "teacher of the year" deleted it, said he was only joking and the complaints were just "conservative bots," and claimed that "no one said a thing until I promoted black medical awareness." Right, promoting black medical awareness is what upset people. They're obviously just racists.
I know I'm not "the National Teacher of the Year," but maybe I can impart a valuable lesson to him about telling jokes in public. I've had my share of gags that bombed, but usually, it was because the pun was too much of a groaner or something like that. So I'd say the #1 lesson of comedy is to recognize the difference between an actual, funny joke and advocating the violent assault of a public official.
I am beyond sad to have to report that Dawn Wells (Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island") has died at 82 of causes related to COVID-19.
The first crush of a generation of '60s-era boys and one half of the eternal "Mary Ann or Ginger" conundrum, Dawn Wells' TV image as a sweetly sexy, sunny, optimistic, fresh-faced girl next door was no act. She said she built the character, and the core of Mary Ann was her and her values. Although her parents divorced when she was four, she insisted she did not grow up in a broken home, writing in her book, "What Would Mary Ann Do? A Guide For Life," "I was raised by a very good mother and a great dad."
She recalled that in middle school, she was chubby with severe acne, braces and bad knees from ballet lessons, but she was popular, proving that "the bell of the ball doesn't have to be a belle." Still, she blossomed into quite a belle, becoming Miss Nevada 1959 and competing for Miss America. Aside from "Gilligan," she appeared in many TV shows, movies and plays. Later in life, she was active in a number of charities, including education for film students, helping the disabled, saving elephants and making clothes for the elderly.
Even though she tried to de-wholesome her image a little by doing "The Owl and the Pussycat" on stage after "Gilligan" ended, she never escaped that island, nor did she want to, returning for reunions, staying friends with her castmates and expressing gratitude to fans who never lost their love for her. When she fell in 2018 and word got out that she couldn't pay her hospital bill, she was flabbergasted when a GoFundMe page raised $190,000 for her in one month.
Her late co-star Russell "The Professor" Johnson once noted that "Gilligan's Island" was savaged by critics during the hip and turbulent '60s, but decades later, it's still running everywhere in the world, and new families are watching it together and laughing at its clean humor. Even some of the critics later admitted to him that they'd watched it again and decided it really wasn't that bad after all.
But how could any show be bad when it had Mary Ann and Ginger? (I'm glad to report that Tina Louise is still with us, although she is now the last surviving "Gilligan" cast member.) In fact, maybe what TV needs is more characters like Mary Ann Summers (yes, she had a last name.) Dawn Wells agreed.
In 2008, she told the Television Academy Foundation, "There hasn't been a Mary Ann on the air for I don't know how long. There hasn't been a good girl over 14, and Mary Ann was very much that…The Mary Ann-Ginger issue is always there. You had to be a real man to understand Ginger, and Mary Ann would've gone to the prom with you and been your best friend. A lot of guys would come up to me and say, 'I married a Mary Ann.' She had the values."
A good lesson for today's TV sitcom producers. We are all sad to lose Dawn Wells, but Mary Ann will live on in reruns forever as the first crush of generations of boys still to come.
By "Huckabee" pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.facebook.com/hollywoodhifibook)
Our report on Jovan Pulitzer's testimony about hacking into voting machines and being able to recognize ballot fraud brought in a ton of reader responses, most expressing some combination of outrage, frustration and dismay. Here are just a few that made specific points:
From Michael:
If there's nothing to hide, then why so much resistance? If I thought I won legitimately, I would be the first to say: check under the hood boys, kick the tires, take her for a test run, you'll find nothing wrong with her!
From Kelley:
Our family really enjoys your articles and TV programs! Thank you!
I hadn't heard of Jovan Pulitzer until in your article on 31 Dec. Why hasn't he been involved from the beginning, when the frauds of this election first were testified? Where has this guy been?!!
From Jan:
Good article. Thank you. And not at all surprising this could be done, if one stops to think about it and be honest with themselves. I truly don't know why so many choose to be deceived. After everything we have seen, it is willing blindness. I am sick of trying to convince people. It isn't simply the man the left loves to hate that is being deprived of due process. It is 75 million Americans. I am one, and I am taking it personally.
From Akujobi:
Quite revealing; I never had the election report in quite a simple and interesting way like this.
From Lincoln:
President Trump won and we need transparency. My brother fought 20 years for my freedom. My uncles gave their lives for my freedom. America deserves the Truth!!!
From Irene (who says 2020 wasn't the first time):
Like it or not, believe it or not, there was fraud in the 2016 election. I have photos of my ballot, and after I hit straight Republican ticket and then reviewed, it came up with Hillary checked in the President space and Eugene De Pasqualle in auditor general and he was also a Democrat. My machine had to be reset 3 times before it showed straight Republican. I do have photos to prove what happened. I believe that was their first attempt.
From Kathy:
Pulitzer's testimony was fascinating, and I applaud him for coming forward. Why didn't they just give him the ballots then? They are hiding something, obviously. I would encourage all to watch the testimony in Georgia. All the witnesses are worth hearing.
From David:
I'm an IT professional. I fabricated bar code labels once for backup tape cartridges. I read all the specs on the bar coding, as well as the size of the barcode. I also noted that the paper was a factor, too. The issue is related to the reflection of the laser off the white paper. If the shade of paper is off, or it's got a shiny finish instead of a matte finish, that messes it up. Dominion would know this. To mess with ballots, producing out-of-spec paper ballots to send to Republican-dominated districts, is a sophisticated level of dirty trickery, indeed.
From Daniel:
...Blocking thorough investigation, whether or not elections were rigged, tell us the Republic is already lost in [a] media conglomerate-controlled state of disunion. I'm ready for a Constitutional Convention.
I am quite a bit on the mistrusting side of things these days as a result of all the shenanigans that have gone on. I am gonna bet that this guy will prove his point and it will be buried or claimed to be in error. That is, of course, if they actually let him look at a good cross section of ballots.
From Pamela:
This man's credibility is astounding if you just look at his background! He's able to detect a problem within seconds. I am a former Democrat; voter fraud without a doubt occurred!
From Nola:
I listened to the hearings last Wed. and if anyone can sit there and deny the FRAUD, they are ANTI-America! My concern is that they are getting rid of the fraudulent ballots or hand picking what they want examined!
They're not going to give you the ballots that they cheated with; they've been hiding the rigged ballots since November 3rd..
From Rhonda:
Only problem is that the very next night, they were caught moving pallets of ballots out and taken to a shredding company...someone caught them, so hopefully it's all documented and justice is served.
NOTE to Rhonda and others who wrote about the shredding of fake ballots: Yes, Patrick Byrne, the founder of Overstock.com, reports that thanks to a tip, he was able to document the transport and shredding of fraudulent ballots in Georgia. He even has a map showing where the trucks allegedly went. He says this was done the very night of Wednesday's meeting of the Georgia senate subcommittee on election fraud, which had recommended unanimously that Jovan Pulitzer be given ballots to examine. Here is that story in a commentary at THE SPECTATOR.
Byrne says he got samples of the ballots before the shredding, which he describes as military-grade shredding that turns paper not into strips but into tiny "spitballs." On New Year's Day, he tweeted pictures of piles of boxes that he says are fake ballots, the labels on the boxes, and tall stacks of the ballots themselves. (Of course, the helpful folks at Twitter took it upon themselves to add the disclaimer [in red], "This claim about election fraud is disputed.")
We are checking this out thoroughly and will have a detailed report for you no later than Monday.
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Morning Edition - January 18
treasure smith
DID YOU GET MY EMAIL? II CHRONICLES 7:14 ts
II CHRONICLES 7:14 IF MY PEOPLE.......
THIS IS THE ANSWER FROM OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. TSMITH
Carmine Fea
Dear Governor Huckabee: I
Re: Senate Investigation of Violations of the Constitution and Fraud in the Nov. 3, 2020 Election and Violations and Fraud Affected the Electoral Votes.
I support the Senate investigation and changes in the electoral votes based on the Senate's investigation. It is clear we have republican congressional representatives who are idiots in that they think and talk with disregard for reason.
States violated Constitution election law. Violation of Constitution election law permitted fraud. States, including Georgia, did not verify voters, did not match voters with state voter registration roles. Georgia did not match voters with state voter registration roles because of an unlawful Consent Degree - anyone could vote regardless of age, location or eligibility. After two vote recounts in Georgia, neither of which matched voters with voter registration roles, simply counting twice votes from the same unverified voters. Only after 86,000 new voters were registered by Stacy Abrams, did Georgia agree to verify, match with voter roles, a relatively small area of voters and Georgia officials now say we verified a sampling of voters and found no irregularities. Reasonable people can see the Senate investigation must proceed with all cooperation.
Sue Palik
Just saw Ken Buck, R, Colorado on Fox. Dumb as a door knob! If he thinks that setting up a commission to improve future elections is going to bring any fruit AFTER the electoral votes are counted, well..he IS dumb as a door knob! How soon he forgets the attempt to bring Trump down? and you know what will happen with any election investigations by a completely run democrat administration, if Georgia does not pull through (a state I WON"T move to if that happens!) Give me a break! The Deep State is alive and well in BOTH parties. The courts refused to hear any case on its merits to block true exposure of the fraud. Calculated manuver! You could have a blimp float into the Supreme Court or ANY Court in this country, or the Congress or Senate, AND THEY WOULD JUST SAY, OH, LOOK, IT'S JUST AM AMERICAN EAGLE! I don't know where we get these elected officials. Oh, wait a minute...the PEOPLE voted them in, right? No fraud AT ALL!? And the Repubs are innocent, Right? WRONG! These elected officials HAVE SOLD US OUT, on both sides, from city council members to career senators and congress are dumb dumb dumb...they have not got a clue as to how upset people are and see through this charade. There were more votes counted than people registered! Well, I've been praying.."If my people, who are called by my name...." I'm moving from a sancutary state...cleaning out...and let these states where there is going to be an unmanageable influx of criminals let out of prison and illegals from EVERYWHERE flood our gates and MY taxes USED TO SUPPORT THEM, GIVE THEM FREE EDUCATION, RIGHT TO VOTE BEFORE A CITIZEN, TAKE AWAY OUR ABILITY TO EARN A LIVING BY GIVING THEM PREFERENCE OVER CITIZENS, AND FREE HEALTH CARE, AND MORE....I intend to leave these sorry voters behind in a cloud of dust and let THEM deal with it. If there is a movement for a NEW AMERICA minus these Marxist states, I'm in!
With the reelected Speaker of the House Pelosi the country is in a state of despair. With the country's leaders in the House in favor of Destroying our Constitution it seems all that is left is a disregard of that power the House is given. The honor of the oath taken has been compromised what is left in the rule of law. The House has returned the country to the wilderness of the Wild West were law and order was absent. Theft, Murder, destruction of property burned out, Corruption does any of this sound familiar?
R Reedy
2016 per Irene looks like PA. Also, all elections should be auditable. If this is not the case, why is it not the case. That is the problem. Maybe, random audits should occur for every election.
Renee Kendrick
Even if the DIMS cheat their way into governmental power this month, President Donald John Trump should never consider himself a failure or a loser! He is a champion to 75 million Americans! He win both elections fairly. He took the good ole USA to new heights! Heights that will be destroyed in a matter of days, if the DIMS get their way!
The good Lord in Heaven knows all that has happened! HE will repay with HIS vengeance! A vengeance that will cause the evildoers to cry out in sheer panic and a deep grief that they have never felt before! Reaping the consequences will be far greater for them than the corruption sowed to gain power! Beware, DIMS, beware! God's wrath is in your future!
B. L. Kirby
None of the links to find out what to do with one's money would work. I tried several times. Supposedly taken to your website, but nothing worked.
Elaine Liming
Thanks Mike for your newsletters and good summaries. I have read the comments from fellow Americans and like what I read. However one comment I didn't see is how the media in general didn't educate the voter to what was being discovered in Georgia about the voting there. I would like to see my fellow Americans stop buying newspapers. If they continue not to serve the public with news we need to learn about and instead serve the politicians they think we should elect, it is time for Americans to say enough is enough to the news industry. I think our news industry wants to destroy the country from within. Money Power Status is their goal. Truth is something they don't understand.
James Joseph Evart
YES! What POSSIBLE reason can there be for not saying "Here are ALLLLLLL of the physical ballots, let the examination of these be hard proof that the election was not a fraud.". If these bastards were not frauds, they would have no other reason for withholding evidence that would lay this matter to rest once and for all. Their fraud is the ONLY reason for hiding the evidence of their supposed innocence. Remember, if one cannot shout it from the roof tops, it isn't worth doing!
Rose LiBassi
It's good to see the wrong done to "we the people". Proving it is a useless effort when all the three branches of government have given their blessing to the cheating. It is clear as day that they all feared the man who was exposing all the corruption across all branches. RIP America.
Floyd Unger
Thank you...it's really amazing that the left went to so much trouble to elect,fraudulently, an incompetent guy who is so dumb that he doesn't know that he's a criminal.....sheesh!
It has been obvious since election night that voter fraud was rampant and that the election was stolen by Biden. Subsequent evidence that has been presented overwhelmingly documents the blatant fraud. No more evidence needs to be presented.
Instead, it is time for democratic due process to be effectively used to remedy this electoral travesty. This will not happen without a concerted effort by the GOP leadership which apparently as exemplified by McConnell has little interest in a truly legitimate outcome.
This is the real inconvenient truth if the 2020 election, namely that many in the GOP are also complicit.
There is no reason to think that anything will change in the 11th hour.
There is no reason to believe that 2021 will better than 2020. That would be delusional magical thinking.
Judy Hickey
To Daniel, Join Convention of States. We are a hugh grassroots group of citizens who are working hard to make a difference. 15 states have passed the resolution. 34 states need to pass the resolution to hold a convention. Look us up at conventionofstates.com. We have the the solution given to us by our founders in Article five of the Constitution
Paul Kern
It is my prayer that truth prevails. The RINOs like McConnell and Crenshaw have nkw outed themselves.
I hope the readers all realize if Biden and his queen in waiting there will only be Soviet or Venezuelan type elections from now on. The left has already divided the Church.
We must prepare and be ready to make a stand.
Only God can prevail!
Dawn Wells: like other Gilligans cast, she co starred on TV show The Wild Wild West.
Only the Skipper & Thurston Howell acted on The Wild Wild West in seperate episodes.
The Skipper was then Wests sidekick since Artie Gordon was in " DC".
2 bad Tina Louise never acted on Wild Wild West.
Now to reun more Gilligans Island etc again.
Miss GI Cast & Crew.
Pay homage to GI on TBN show?


September 30, 2008: the reformist Iranian newspaper Kargozaran published a public appeal asking the chief magistrate to suspend the execution of six Kurdish activists. September 30, 2008: the reformist Iranian newspaper Kargozaran published an appeal from the judicial apparatus asking the chief magistrate to suspend the execution of six Kurdish activists.
Signed by "more than 1,400 political, cultural and social activists", the letter asks Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi to "immediately suspend the executions" of Farzad Kamangar, Fahrad Vakili, Ali Heidarian, Arsalan Oliai, Anvar Hossein Panahi and Habibollah Latifi. The men were condemned to death in the Islamic Republic in recent months.
The latter two accused have appealed their sentences and are awaiting the outcome. All six were sentenced to death for belonging to or supporting PJAK, an armed group affiliated with the Turkish PKK, the Workers Party of Kurdistan.


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Bump & Run: Is Daytona last true shot for Dale Earnhardt Jr. to make playoffs?
By NBC SportsJun 27, 2017, 12:00 PM EDT
Kyle Petty, Slugger Labbe and Dale Jarrett join Leigh Diffey from 5:30 – 7 p.m. ET today on NASCAR America on NBCSN. Petty, Labbe, Jarrett, Nate Ryan and Dustin Long discuss this week's hot topics.
Does Saturday night's race at Daytona International Speedway mark Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s last true shot to win and make the playoffs?
Dale Jarrett: Certainly by what we've seen to this point, it would take something extraordinary for it to happen somewhere else. Even though they've run better. There's nothing telling me that they're at that point that they can go win one of these other races without pulling some type of strategy. Yes, I think that this is it. It's going to take a win for him to make the playoffs. He's going to have to make that push Saturday night.
Kyle Petty: I don't believe it's his last shot, but it may be his best shot. I say that not because he's run well enough to win anywhere this year, they just seem to be a step behind everywhere. I say "best shot" because throughout his career he's always stepped up at the "storybook, Hollywood script" moments to win. Can his last Daytona be another one of those moments? Yes. Will it? Only the Racing Gods know.
Slugger Labbe: Unfortunately I believe Daytona is the last opportunity (which a win at Daytona would be AWESOME) for Dale Jr. and the 88 team. We just haven't seen the performance and confidence in this team to be perfect and on the same page on a given race weekend and being perfect is about what it takes to win.
Nate Ryan: The answer seemed yes … until Michigan and Sonoma. Those are Earnhardt's first consecutive top 10s this season, and that is meaningful for a streaky driver who always has thrived on confidence and momentum. If he doesn't break through at Daytona, don't expect a win at Kentucky, New Hampshire or Indianapolis … but if the No. 88 can continue a string of solid finishes, it doesn't seem out of the question that Earnhardt still could sneak into victory lane at Pocono, Michigan or Bristol.
Dustin Long: I agree with Kyle that a win by Dale Jr. this weekend would mark another one of those "storybook'' triumphs, but I think he can win elsewhere. It just keeps popping into my head that a storybook moment would be for Dale Jr. to win at Indianapolis, a track Hendrick Motorsports has had much success. After Indy, though, his chances will be limited to a maybe a couple of tracks.
What has been the biggest surprise this season?
Dale Jarrett: How intense the racing is in the early and middle parts of these races. I knew that the stage racing was going to change things, but it's really opened up something totally different to me. To sit and watch an entire race now and see drivers pressing hard and the crew chiefs making decisions at times to gather playoff or more points, whatever it is that they are looking for there, and then putting themselves in a position that they have to try to find their way back to the front to try to win the race. That's something more from teams that have the luxury of doing that that have won races, but it's pretty entertaining.
Kyle Petty: Too many surprises to name only one. First-time winners, drivers that haven't won, Kurt Busch at Daytona, how much stage racing has changed how teams/crew chiefs/drivers race. After this coming weekend, I may have to add "see answer to question #1."
Slugger Labbe: How stage racing has changed our sport for the better, between known cautions (stage ends) that require different strategies and limited tire allotments. There have been races that have been just downright hard to predict, what is right or wrong, until they throw the checkers, and also the effects of the playoff points that are rewarded for stage victories!!
Nate Ryan: That there are 11 winners representing eight teams through the first 16 races – and that none is from Joe Gibbs Racing.
Dustin Long: I wouldn't have guessed that Richard Childress Racing would have two wins and Roush Fenway Racing would have one victory while Joe Gibbs Racing remained winless with its driver lineup.
Kyle Busch is winless in his last 32 races, a streak that dates back to his win last year at Indianapolis. Does he win before next month's race at Indy?
Dale Jarrett: I have to believe he will. There's not a track that we will be going to between now and then that he doesn't perform at a high level at. They continue to put themselves in position. I think at some point in time things will work out. Could be this weekend. I really believe it will happen certainly within the next four races.
Kyle Petty: Yes! Kyle wins before Indy. Honestly he should/could have won two or three races already this year. Driver, crew and pit call mistakes have kept them out of victory lane. They've beaten themselves. I believe with the tracks that are coming up that Kyle's frustration ends.
Slugger Labbe: YES!! KB and the 18 team have been to me one of the best performers so far in 2017. They just need to seal the deal. Speed is not an issue, but they need to clean up a few things. I think it would be great for the garage to see KB win Daytona with a third-string crew chief. This team has had a shot at seven victories so far in 2017: Phoenix, Martinsville, Talladega, Charlotte, Dover, Pocono and Michigan. For KB to have a mic drop and a few F-bombs, I think he has done a remarkable job so far. Amazing that we are halfway through season and NO JGR team has been to victory lane yet!
Nate Ryan: He has three top fives in the past six restrictor-plate races between Daytona and Talladega, so I'll be picking him Saturday night.
Dustin Long: Yes. The drought ends at Kentucky.

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If you need to drown your sorrows over the fact that Game of Thrones' next season is going to be delayed, or the fact that it's almost over, you're in luck.
There's now a Game of Thrones pub crawl you can go on through Northern Ireland that pairs filming locations of the show with specific pubs. What's more, there's also a beautiful door carved with a special Game of Thrones design in each pub made from some very special wood.
You might be familiar with the Dark Hedges - they've featured pretty regularly in Game of Thrones and they're a well-known landmark way up North. Anyway, last winter, a few of the trees collapsed and the resulting timber has been crafted into beautiful doors that now hang up in ten specific pubs around Northern Ireland.
Each door is crafted with a beautiful inlay design that focuses on a particular story from Game of Thrones that was also filmed nearby. There's ten doors in total, spread across ten pubs in Northern Ireland.
The locations, if you're planning on taking the pub crawl, are all in this handy little map. Just tap the image to expand it and, as you can see, they also show where specific locations are doubling for.


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ICM or Intentional Camera Movement is a technique used to create abstract images of a seascape/landscape scene, in this case the rather beautiful Mangersta Beach on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. I took the image mid March this year as the technique involved panning the camera form left to right in a quick jerky but smooth motion over half a second shutter speed. I wanted to keep the form and layers of the waves and the curved one that rolled in top right was all down to lucky timing. Shooting over just half a second allowed me to retain some texture of the water and the sand although there was no detail to be caught in the sky which provides a lovely bright layer at the top of the image. The Outer Hebrides is a perfect place to capture ICM images due to the lovely subtle colour palette and the gorgeous green aqua colours of the water.


The goal of the National Latino Peace Officers Association is to promote equality and professionalism in law enforcement. The objectives of the organization are to create a fraternal/professional Association that provides its members and members of the community with career training; conferences and work shops to promote education and career advancement; mentoring; and a strong commitment to community service.
NLPOA members build bridges between law enforcement and their communities while working to reduce neighborhood tensions through awareness programs and role model programs. Our philosophy regarding youth and education has reinforced the important contributions that our cultural diversity has provided this great nation. The National Latino Peace Officers Association in the largest Latino law enforcement association in the United States.


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French open mens winners
Second-seeded Ken Rosewall defeated Rod Laver in the final, 6–3, 6–1, 2–6, 6–2 to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1968 French Open. It was Rosewall's second French title, and his fifth Grand Slam title of an eventual eight.
Winners of the Men's French Open Tennis Tournament 91 rows List of French Open champions - Wikipedia 54 rows
French players have won the most French Open men's singles titles, with 38 victories, followed by Spanish (18) and Australian players (11). The current champion is Rafael Nadal who beat Dominic Thiem in the 2019 final to win his twelfth French Open title.
Jun 09, 2019 · Spain's Rafael Nadal celebrates his record 12th French Open tennis tournament title after winning his men's final match against Austria's Dominic Thiem in four sets, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, 6-1, at the
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package soot.jimple.infoflow.ipc;

import java.util.List;

import soot.SootMethod;

/**
 * A {@link IIPCManager} working on lists of IPC methods
 *
 * @author Steven Arzt
 */
public class DefaultIPCManager extends MethodBasedIPCManager {

	private List<String> ipcMethods;

	/**
	 * Creates a new instance of the {@link DefaultIPCManager} class
	 * @param ipcMethods The list of methods to be treated as IPCs
	 */
	public DefaultIPCManager(List<String> ipcMethods) {
		this.ipcMethods = ipcMethods;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the list of methods to be treated as IPCs
	 * @param ipcMethods The list of methods to be treated as IPCs
	 */
	public void setSinks(List<String> ipcMethods){
		this.ipcMethods = ipcMethods;
	}

	@Override
	public boolean isIPCMethod(SootMethod sMethod) {
		return ipcMethods.contains(sMethod.toString());
	}

	@Override
    public void updateJimpleForICC() {
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Q: Linux Kernel List, Freeing memory I am currently learning some Linux Driver writing, and i try to implement list with the Linux Kernel list API.
My code just allocate a list and add 2 elements to it.
All go Ok until i try to free the memory i allocate, here i got a segmentation fault, and from what i test, it come from list_del call.
But i cannot see where i did wrong.
Here is my code :
struct drv_cdev{
    int devno;
};

struct drv_dev_itf {
    struct drv_cdev cdev; //DATA
    struct list_head cdev_list;
};

struct drv_dev {
    int number;
    struct list_head list_master;
    struct drv_dev_itf drv_dev_itf;
};

void add_node(struct drv_dev *dev, int num)
{
    struct drv_dev_itf *new_cdev;

    new_cdev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct drv_dev_itf*), GFP_KERNEL);

    new_cdev->cdev.devno = num;

    INIT_LIST_HEAD(&new_cdev->cdev_list);
    list_add(&new_cdev->cdev_list, &dev->list_master);
}

void destroy_list(struct drv_dev *dev)
{
    struct list_head *position;
    struct drv_dev_itf *data_structure;

    list_for_each (position, &dev->list_master) {
    data_structure = list_entry(position, struct drv_dev_itf, cdev_list);
    printk("Devno testing : %d\n", data_structure->cdev.devno);
    //dev_node_release(driver_class, &data_structure->cdev);

    list_del(position);
    printk("List head deleted\n");
    /*kfree(data_structure);
    printk("List data_structure deleted\n");*/
    }
 }

static int __init test_init(void)
{
    struct drv_dev *dev;

    dev = kmalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);

    INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->list_master);
    add_node(dev, 1);
    add_node(dev, 2);
    destroy_list(dev);

    kfree(dev);
    return 0;

}

Thanks in advance for your answers, have a nice day.

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Hector Lake är en sjö i Kanada.   Den ligger i provinsen Alberta, i den centrala delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Ottawa. Hector Lake ligger  meter över havet. Arean är  kvadratkilometer. Den sträcker sig 3,4 kilometer i nord-sydlig riktning, och 4,9 kilometer i öst-västlig riktning.

Trakten runt Hector Lake består i huvudsak av gräsmarker. Trakten runt Hector Lake är nära nog obefolkad, med mindre än två invånare per kvadratkilometer.  Trakten ingår i den boreala klimatzonen. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C.

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The Enlightened Crowd
So, here's a new twist for this fine interwebz publication: graduate papers. Intended for thinking not plagiarizing, I'm going to start posting the majors papers I write for my Communication Management Master's degree. I started this project as a way to write about things that interested me when I had a job that made me write a lot about things I didn't give two shits about. But, now that I'm back in school, I get to write about things that interest me all the time; might as well continue sharing such things here.
Below is the first major paper I've written in about 3 years. It compares the 1957 film A Face In The Crowd, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg, with the Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, first published in 1944.
The Enlightened Crowd: Issues of Culture and Power in A Face in the Crowd and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
In 1957 the creative writing and directing team of Kazan and Schulberg released A Face in the Crowd, a socially and politically charged film that expressed their opinions on the value of mass media, as well as their concerns of fascism. Many of the dangers and power systems they depicted seemed to illustrate the theories detailed in Dialectic of Enlightenment written by Frankfurt School academics Adorno and Horkheimer in the 1940s. However, a deeper analysis of the movie suggests the scholars and directors might not have entirely seen eye to eye. Through a comparative analysis of A Face in the Crowd and the Dialectic of Enlightenment, this paper considers historical contexts, cultural values, economic influences, and finally comes to the conclusion that the key failure of both works is a lack of value and respect for less privileged classes. Still, many of the issues the authors and directors address are still problems in 2011, and therefore both works have lasting value. Since the debate is still pertinent, this paper proposes an opposing, more inclusive viewpoint.
With a cursory overview, A Face in the Crowd seems to be the cinematic embodiment of Frankfurt School ideals, in particular the theories laid out by Adorno and Horkheimer in their seminal work, Dialectic of Enlightenment. The movie neatly illustrates the power of industry over culture and politics, the passive consumption of audiences, and the theory of reification.
When the corporate sponsors of Lonesome Rhodes' television show decided to become involved in politics by using Rhodes to promote their chosen candidate for the presidency, it is a clear example of Adorno and Horkheimer's prediction that just like "culture monopolies", politics would also become dependent upon "powerful sectors of industry" (p122-3). Just as Rhodes is dependent upon the support of his advertiser, a drug corporation owned by General Haynesworth, the senator running for office is dependent upon the media endorsement of Rhodes via the general. In the end, all power, money, and validation are controlled by Haynesworth, who does a worthy job of representing the concerns and hierarchy of capitalist industry. As illustrated by the scene at the general's house when at a private meeting Rhodes, Senator Fuller, and select elites meet to discuss how to sell the senator to the masses, General Haynesworth as a business man is creating a powerful inner circle to protect and promote his private interests in the public spheres of media and politics. Anyone unwilling to participate in this power system, such as the ad man Macey, who would prefer a "dignified sell", are ejected from the general's confidence.
Further detailing the dangers of the culture industry, and in accordance with their neo-Marxist philosophies, Adorno and Horkheimer explain the system by which commercial agencies process the power of society to the purposes of removing intuition from the individual, and conducting all reasoning for him (p124). The general's drug company through Rhodes' power for mass appeal is able to control the thoughts and actions of his mass audience, with no intuitive resistance they consume the drugs and politics they are fed. The audience in A Face in the Crowd eagerly absorbs everything transmitted to them through their televisions, never questioning or pausing to reason out the messages they receive. As Adorno and Horkheimer state it, "no independent thinking must be expected from the audience: the product prescribes every reaction: not by its natural structure (which collapses under reflection), but by signals" (p137). In the case of A Face in the Crowd, the product of Lonesome Rhodes dictates the audience's reactions and thoughts on everything from politics to housework, though his "country boy" character is but a thin veneer covering his true megalomaniacal intentions. Unfortunately, the audience as a mass is depicted as incapable of the critical, independent reasoning that would expose Rhodes and the powers clearly behind him, because they are so conditioned by social signals.
Through cliché, repetition, and reification the man Larry Rhodes becomes the brand Lonesome Rhodes. Adorno and Horkheimer realized that "the blind and rapidly spreading repetition of words with special designations" could give advertising the same power as totalitarian propaganda (p165). In this case, by repeatedly reenacting the stereotypical Arkansas "country boy", Rhodes becomes a branded package of signals that communicate implicit honesty, authenticity, and intimacy to his audience, even though he has done nothing outside the cliché to prove these values. Through their work creating and managing the character, Marcia and Joey are able to own part of Lonesome Rhodes, because he has become more branded product than man. Once the signals have been effectively branded and packaged, Lonesome Rhodes becomes a super effective conduit for transmitting the general's agenda directly to his eager, passive masses.
However, though the message of Kazan and Schulberg's A Face in the Crowd overlaps significantly with the ideas of Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment, they diverge in several key ways. It's doubtful that the Frankfurt scholars would have approved of the movie or that the directors would have agreed with the negative critique of film in the book.
Adorno and Horkheimer clearly state that although they view the entire culture industry as dangerous, they are especially concerned about the influence of movies: "Real life is becoming indistinguishable from movies" (p126). They believed that above all other mediums the pairing of sound with film reduced "mass-media consumers" ability to imagine original ideas or critically respond to their world (p126-7). Consequently, no matter whether they agreed with Kazan and Schulberg's intent or philosophy, they would have disagreed with their chosen method for communicating it. The movie seems to offer an authentic glimpse behind the curtain of the culture industry, just as when Rhodes offers his audience a glimpse at the mechanics of his television show by having the camera film the camera monitor. Similarly, the film creates an endless hall of mirror effect that simulates reality so closely that it can be hard to remember that it's completely fabricated, fictional. It is this blurring of mass media and real life that Adorno and Horkheimer believed was confusing people and impairing them from the kind of reasoned thinking that allowed them to be independent citizens.
Moreover, as previously mentioned the movie, as most movies do, utilizes stereotypes. But just as the general uses the branded and packaged Lonesome Rhodes to sell his products and ideas, the directors use the stereotype of Rhodes to convey their complex message within the standard length of a feature-length film. Rhodes is compared to Will Rogers, and sings Rye Whiskey by Tex Ritter so that the audience easily and immediately comprehends his charismatic power as an entertainer and American everyman. The character becomes a symbol for the directors' message by repeating signals the audience is already familiar with, and by comparing him to an entertainer in real life the dangers exposed in the film are understood to have pertinent implications. This is precisely the type of reification that Adorno and Horkheimer accused sound films of as part of their standardized industrialization that turned culture into mass media (p125).
Ultimately, Adorno and Horkheimer probably would have argued that Kazan and Schulberg used the mechanisms of the culture industry to sell a mass produced ideology, influenced by the coercion of an economy (p166), and crafted for a particular category of previously determined consumer (p123). Kazan and Schulberg made this film at a time when the film industry was attempting to compete with television by differentiating itself as intellectually superior (Maloney p255). The film sells an ideology on the evils of advertising-based media, in this case television, to a film audience defined as sophisticated and intelligent by contrast to the depicted gullible television audience (Maloney p256). And, as Adorno and Horkheimer's theory proves this is partly because they are operating as part of an industry with capitalistic motivations. Like all movies, despite its message or perhaps with the help of its message, A Face in the Crowd needed to turn a profit. Scholars and press alike hailed the film for its culturally prestigious participation in the larger mass culture debate that was unfolding in the 1950s (Maloney p257). By appealing to one of the widely held positions in the debate, that some forms of culture were better than other forms, the film was able to gain valuable promotion without advertising support.
Conversely, Kazan and Schulberg would have asserted that they were trying to effect real and positive change for the good of the people with their film. In addition to the obvious warning in the movie about advertising's influence over television, the directors were intentionally trying to warn their audience about the dangers of "grassroots fascism" (Kelley p96). During McCarthy's red scare, Kazan testified against suspected communists out of a sense of patriotic duty (Kelley p87). Rhodes is depicted as a charismatic populist, because the directors believed that the essential elements of populism were the same elements that made fascism popular, which meant that one could easily lead to the other (Kelley p96). By illustrating the megalomaniacal scheming and narcissism behind the charming "country boy" veneer of Lonesome Rhodes, the directors laid bare the potential for evil and manipulation in innocuous entertainment. The primary reason Kazan and Schulberg made the film is because they wished to convey an important message for the education of their audience. They probably would have argued that the important and positive nature of the movie negated the drawbacks of the culture industry and mass media.
Furthermore, Kazan and Schulberg believed that not just movies, but also television had an "extensive potential for good", despite some of its inherent dangers (Kelley p94). This is most likely why they chose to end A Face in the Crowd with a massive audience uprising against Rhodes. Although they needed to have it blatantly unveiled for them, and the culture industry was already working to prepare a replacement Rhodes to dupe them again, the film suggests that once the television audience knows the truth they will be outraged and demand better. Here is the potential for democratic change from the masses, and their great education is received via their television sets. It's doubtful that Adorno and Horkheimer would have ever given either mass media or its consumers so much credit. Interestingly, McCarthy himself proves an actual contemporary example of television's power to unveil as much as mask. McCarthy's credibility began to unravel once he appeared on Edward R. Murrow's show, and was unable to conceal his ridiculously fanatic behavior from the audience's public judgment (Kelley p91). Though Adorno and Horkheimer saw mass media as entirely and inherently evil, the fall of Rhodes and McCarthy serve as an example of its ability to convey truth and inspire independent reasoning. Thus, suggesting that mass media is inherently a tool that's function and value is determined by its wielder, and not intrinsic properties.
Clearly, it is important to remember that Adorno, Horkheimer, Kazan, and Schulberg are products of their time along with the creative works that they crafted. Fleeing growing fascism in Germany, many of the core members of what has since become known as the Frankfurt School of sociocultural theory gathered at Columbia University in the late 1930s (Gilbert p111). It simply cannot be overlooked that in the United States these scholars were welcomed into a wealthy, respected academic institution. Although the Frankfurt School frequently worked with the assumption that the highest form of culture was that of their traditional European heritage, there work was popular with liberal, educated American critics (Gilbert p113). From this cultural context, two conclusions can be drawn: the critics were from a wealthier class than the average citizens, and they believed that the classic culture of their class was superior to that of the average citizen, the mass media of the masses.
Given Kazan and Shulberg's background, as well as the position A Face In The Crowd takes on the 1950s mass culture debate, it is clear that the directors were part of the liberal, educated class. And as mentioned before, Kazan willingly participated in McCarthy's investigations. In the movie they communicate their values through Mel, nicknamed Vanderbilt '44, who was admittedly the personification of Schulberg and their "antifascist mouthpiece" (Kelley p101). Mel is also upper middle class, well educated, liberal, and is the least fooled by Rhodes' act. His eventual distrust of Rhodes' charisma and populist appeal reflects the fears of fascism common in the 1950s. Unlike Mel, the working class audience depicted in the film requires the help of a brave and moral individual to become aware of Rhodes' deception. Throughout his work, as a reflection of cold war political values, Kazan repeatedly created characters that by exercising their personal conscientiousness and freedom were able to solve social issues far greater then themselves (Maloney p253). In A Face In The Crowd, this reliance on heroic individualism is embodied in Mel and Marcia, the liberal intellectuals, who unmask Rhodes to his audience, thus ending his cultural regime.
In essence, though they may have come to different conclusions about the value of mass media and the potential of the people, Adorno, Horkheimer, Kazan, and Schulberg all came from a similar cultural milieu, an educated, upper middle class deeply worried by the threat of fascism rooted in populism. Mass media had become the most accessible means for distributing new information and ideas, and therefore became the focus of critics who distrusted sociocultural and political change (Gilbert p119). They reasoned out their concerns within the context of their class, background, and values, which inevitably lead to ideologies based on a cultural hierarchy and simplification of less privileged classes. This is how both A Face In The Crowd and Dialectic Of Enlightenment commonly fall short in their critique of mass media and mass culture. They underestimate the power, value, and individuality of the masses.
Though Adorno and Horkheimer began theorizing eighty years ago, and many of their arguments are still applicable, their fears of fascism have yet to arrive. Though monopolistic capitalism is undeniably still a strong force today, it can be argued that consumers are aware of this power system and concerned by its use. The influence of lobbyists was a decisive issue in the 2008 election, and entertainment magazines write openly about celebrity endorsements as business deals. It would appear that people are not as easily manipulated, hopelessly passive, or able to function as streamlined and segmented masses as Adorno and Horkheimer thought (Mattson p88). Thus our current lack of industrial totalitarianism in America society, the corporations may be overwhelmingly powerful, but they may never be all powerful.
In order to understand the truth of this at a most basic level, we can consider some Communications 101 theory. Barnett Pearce and Vernon Cronen's Coordinated Management of Meaning theory (CMM), states that "persons-in-conversation co-construct their own social realities and are simultaneously shaped by the worlds they create" (Griffin p69). Basically, individuals although influenced by the conversational milieu, play an important role in the communication process by actively creating and interpreting messages and mediums. Although a person and a corporation in conversation have a different power dynamic and a more unidirectional communication flow, that does not remove that person's innate ability to uniquely interpret messages or create their individual reality. In the end, no matter how many consumer categories you may associate with, you have a distinct identity; you are your own gatekeeper, and your own interpreter.
For example, consider Reception theory, which "argues that consumers use the products they purchase to their own liking, showing off their ability to resist the intentions of marketers and advertisers" (Mattson p89). Or, consider the "consumer as participatory citizen", which allows for the collective purchasing power of many individual citizens consuming along shared values that do not necessarily conform to capitalist agenda (Mattson p89). Such theory explains the social phenomenon of consumers personalizing products, and the success of campaigns that promote buying local or organic.
Similarly, due to an elitist view of the masses the citizen uprising depicted at the end of A Face In The Crowd, though pleasantly optimistic, is a weak point in Kazan and Schulberg's sociocultural critique. It works with the assumption that audience would behave as a hive-mind mass simply because they come from similar educational and economic backgrounds, even though they have far more not in common: men, women, rural, urban, black, white, old, and young. As the movie continues, this diverse audience is personified in Betty Lou; the gullible, willing, immoral, uneducated girl Rhodes marries (Maloney p271). Once again, the distinction between the directors and Rhodes is blurred. Rhodes is disrespectful of his mass audience, but it also seems Kazan and Schulberg disrespect television audiences as well (Maloney p271). Moreover, the fact that a woman is chosen to represent the masses is telling. For all her dimwitted naivety, Betty Lou is cunning in her manipulation of Rhodes to win the baton competition, and her infidelity with an even more powerful man, thus fulfilling the classically sexist Hollywood stereotype of the temptress.
In the film, Marcia is supposed to offer a contrasting model of womanhood. Kazan claimed that the most real message of his film was "women as conscience" (Kelley p103). This fulfills another classic Hollywood stereotype that all attractive women who are not temptresses must be the models of Western, Christian value. Imbued with privileged, education and decency, all she needs is the guidance and support of a man, Mel, so that she can unmask Rhodes and promote goodness. Just as Marcia needs direction from Mel, the audience gets their direction from Marcia. Essentially, this establishes that the less fortunate classes require the agency and intelligence of a higher class, of which Kazan and Schulberg were members and intended viewers of their movie to identify with (Maloney p273). By creating a cultural hierarchy based on stereotypes, Kazan and Schulberg degrade and simplify the masses past the point of anything respectable or recognizably real.
Sociocultural change requires the broad participation of the public as well as a deeply individual shift in values. This is process is so complex and personal it can only be feigned by industry or elites. Or, as James Yates wrote in his critique of A Face In The Crowd so succinctly and passionately I dare not paraphrase it,
"The people of this country have dignity, independent of whether or not as a political body they are free or wise, grounded solely in a cultural identity flowing out of their daily American lives. Artifacts of popular culture, such as country music, blues, hamburger stands, television, exist on a level different and more enduring than the morning headlines." (p27)
He ends by accusing Kazan and Schulberg of neither having nor wanting a real understanding of the working class (p27). This makes sense, if we try to consider who wins in A Face In The Crowd. The masses don't win: they are proven to be easily duped and in need of guidance from the upper class. Marcia doesn't win: Rhodes womanizes and uses her until she's reduced to a nervous wreck. Mel is the only character you can possibly have any respect for by the end of the movie. He conquers his enemy with his morals and intelligence, gets the girl, and will probably make a fortune with his behind-the-scenes, tell-all book. As mentioned before, Mel was Schulberg personified in the film. By setting the film up with their constructed cultural hierarchy, Kazan and Schulberg win. They have a vested interest in their power system, because it puts them at the top.
Despite this critical analysis, the film does hold some value over fifty years later. As an actor, Rhodes' dreams of political office make him easily comparable to 21st century republicans favorite president, Ronald Regan; especially given that both understood love to be more powerful than respect (Quart p31). Accordingly, Rhodes' Cracker Barrel show is an eerie premonition of contemporary, conservative political talk shows, such as those hosted by Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly, where pundits with dubious credentials make populist appeals and promote candidates for office. If you are of a more liberal political persuasion, it could be nice to fantasize that a behind-the-scenes look at the real man behind Glenn Beck the brand would cause his audience support to crumble. However, since that has yet to happen, it is clear that the Lonesome Rhodes format is still popular and powerful in 2011.
Crises like the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reveal that industry still influences government, and media coverage plays an important role in the framing of this relationship. Corporately funded lobbyists and political party contributions have real power over legislation and politicians, and generally act with profit prioritized far above public welfare. In a new twist, the power and money of industry sucks talent and resources from the government by offering government regulators better paying jobs in exchange for their compliance. There are many examples of this, but a recent and particularly pertinent case is Meredith Baker, who was promoted from the FCC to Comcast after she approved their monopolizing merger earlier this year.
A frequent critique of academic papers is that they offer no solution. Since A Face In The Crowd still offers commentary of current issues, but is too elitist in its critique, I'd be remiss in my duties as author if I did not propose a new explanation. I'd like to base my viewpoint on Moving Beyond the "Vast Wasteland" by Laurie Ouelette and Justin Lewis. In this chapter from The Television Studies Reader, Ouelette and Lewis examine the sociocultural context that gave rise to the formation of American public television in the early 1960s (Allen p52). The 1950s mass media debate equated advertising control with the pop culture of the masses and public service with the culture privilege of educated niches, resulting in the creation of public television for the purpose of providing uplifting culture to the masses by its sheer force of its alternative existence (Allen p55). This dynamic resulted in a bifurcation in television that made public television dependent upon wealthy donors and their tastes, and privately owned television dependent upon advertisers and the perceived tastes of the masses (Allen p56). Conversely, Ouelette and Lewis propose that the issue isn't cultural content as much as commercial control, and public television should be a medium that appeals to the majority of people's tastes without the influence of advertising (Allen p60). This would make PBS more like the BBC, and similarly would become more interesting and financially viable in all likelihood, a prospect I wholeheartedly support.
However, I would like to broaden their analysis and proposal past television to all areas of culture. The problem with cultural hierarchies is that they pit people against people, which distracts from the real dangers of monopolistic capitalism and information control. The portrayal of the masses in A Face in the Crowd and Dialectic of Enlightenment reify the power dynamics they are supposedly against, and alienate a massive group of citizens, who could be potentially valuable allies. Issues of content quality are far less important than issues of who is paying for that content, because that is what decides the medium's message. Therefore, in the best interest of as many people as possible, the fostering of new media and government regulation should be geared towards reducing corporate influence rather than constructing cultural hierarchies.
Allen, R. C., & Hill, A. (2004). The television studies reader. London: Routledge.
Gilbert, J. B. (1986). A cycle of outrage: America's reaction to the juvenile delinquent in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press.
Griffin, E. A. (2006). A first look at communication theory. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
Horkheimer, M., & Adorno, T. W. (1987). Dialectic of enlightenment. New York: Continuum.
Kelley, B. M. (2004). Reelpolitik II: Political ideologies in '50s and '60s films. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Maloney, Courtney . "The Faces in Lonesome's Crowd: Imaging the Mass Audience in A Face in the Crowd." Journal of Narrative Theory. 29(3):251-77. Fall 1999.
Mattson, Kevin. "Mass Culture Revisted," Radical Society Apr 2003.
Quart, Leonard. "A Second Look: A Face in the Crowd." Cineaste. 17(2):30-31. 1989.
Yates, J. "Smart Man's Burden: Nashville, A Face in the Crowd, and Popular Culture." Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol V nr 1 (1976); p 19-28.
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