I'm curious - did the audience react? Did your school paper cover the conversation? We have a series of lunchtime social justice conversations that aren't well attended - but do get video coverage, that is how I get to participate most of the time.
This post was an after-the-fact riff about the event. The post just fell out of my head.
The event itself was casual: We told stories about musicians, the times we've met them, concerts we'd seen, etc. It all went down at noon, so the student reporters were either in class or eating lunch.
The publicity machines are much improved since then and can spin actions by pretty poseurs like Britney, Miley, Justin et al into events that are shocking, truly shocking-that is, good for ratings, which are good for advertising dollars-as far as the print and TV tabloids are concerned. Yawn.
Many, many years ago, somebody provided Playboy with nude photos of Madonna taken before she was a celebrity. She fumed, made a fuss and threatened legal action about the unauthorized publication of the pictures. At the time, I thought it was ironic that the Material Girl was being treated like, well, material. In retrospect, I realized the whole faux controversy must have been manufactured. I think Madonna was the best self-promoter since Salvador Dali in terms of turning her personality into money.
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The event itself was casual: We told stories about musicians, the times we've met them, concerts we'd seen, etc. It all went down at noon, so the student reporters were either in class or eating lunch.
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I agree... Miley's a great artist; very talented.
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