Notable/Quotable: Dan Rather Medals for News and Guts




Margaret
This is not The People's Cube:On the contrary, comrade.
I understand, now more than ever, that the entire world is in fact becoming the People's Cube.
If we just learn to regurgitate this website at work wile maintaining a straight face, we are destined to rise very high in the ranks of the new managerial elites.
The straight face will be hard, though.


But there's one award out there that serves as the umbrella foe all the smaller B-rate media awards.

JOEY: Golden Goebbels Award for Outstanding Gov't Propaganda




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Joe Biden plans to nationalize the Joey awards and hand out a lot of Joey's after this year. Perhaps he'll even make a cabinet position to reward the fourth estate.I propose that cabinet position be called "Minister of Propaganda" with the unofficial title "Media Czar" or "Meida Kaiser" as the case may be.






Red Square
But there's one award out there that serves as the umbrella foe all the smaller B-rate media awards.
JOEY: Golden Goebbels Award for Outstanding Gov't Propaganda
"umbrella foe all the smaller B-rate media..."
Interesting use of words there. Freudian slip, perhaps?
In any case, my favorite quote from Herr Goebbels, issued when he nationalized all German media (newspapers, radio and movies): "The press is the piano upon which the hands of government play."
- SK


Apply this to improving overall journalism by killing your own journalistic career - and you get the Dan Rather Awards.




Red Square
The Darwin Awards are given to individuals who help to improve human species by removing themselves from the gene pool via killing themselves in a dumb way.Apply this to improving overall journalism by killing your own journalistic career - and you get the Dan Rather Awards.
oh, so that's where the GUTS part comes in.
'pelipsky was very flux capacitated as to why the Dan Rather Award for News and Guts was named the Dan Rather Award for News and Guts.
To valiantly gut your own career sounds very Eastern, in the western mind of a horned rodent in Texazistan. But, if that's what earning the Dan Rather Award for News and Guts requires, then self gut your journalism career away, comrades.
It's for the People's Good™ - which is always part of the current 5 Year Plan™.
jusayingforelocktug,
'pelipsky