I was a Whore for the Mainstream Media
Sharon October 19th, 2008
So the book’s publicist was excited about the New York Times article. The reporter was reassuring when I worried that she would trivialize the subject – she told me she was just trying to get a hook onto this deeply important subject. Sure.
I was nervous, but now that the worst has happened – the article appears in a completely decontextualized article about crazy people, complete with quotes from therapists.
Good things about the Times piece:
There’s a cute picture of my husband scything.
Bad things about the Times piece:
Everything else, particularly that at no point did the writer mention the Riot for Austerity and the thousand other people around the world who are trying desperately to reduce their carbon impact in a world where increasingly few people seem to care.
I’m assuming that the next step in the McCain campaign will be to take up the cause of my son’s baseball deprivation (which is actually because we are Jewish and don’t do Saturday little league – there’s a baseball field 5 miles from my house, but they have Saturday games) and the way Obama’s carbon plan will deprive all cute six year olds of baseball ;-P.
I particularly like the inclusion of the psychologists, and the acknowledgement that while there’ s no documented reason to believe that there’s a psychological disorder here, there could be.
Sigh.
I mostly find it funny – but I admit, I’m a little pissed off that an opportunity to draw attention to the work of the Riot for Austerity was totally missed because cheap and tawdry sells papers so well. Still, I didn’t come off nearly as badly as poor Colin over at NoImpactman, whose toilet habits are yet again in the New York Times – although this time, in a level of journalistic accuracy that pervades the entire article, they say that Colin used “no toilets.” Apparently, he endured a year of heroic constipation for the ecological cause. Compared to that my low-level child abuse (cold house, no baseball) looks positively lazy.
Ah well, on to the next thing – might as well laugh about it. Remind me of this, though, next time someone wants to do a photoshoot 
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Sharon
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Sharon, it’s obvious that your practice of Judaism makes you a child abuser. How dare you deprive your children of baseball, which every male Murcan child must play, for the sake of the Sabbath? As your children get older they will no doubt experience worse deprivations, like not being driven to football games, or more tragic still, to auto races or tractor pulls, on Saturdays. Probably you also abuse and neglect them by not serving bacon every day for breakfast. If you were a decent parent, you would cut out this being-Jewish silliness.
Wups, some pseudo-explanatory formatting was lost there. I opened with the word “trollish” in diagonal brackets and closed with “/trollish” in diagonal brackets. Unfortunately both were deleted – apparently by your blog’s software saying “What the h3ll do you want me to do again?”
I agree with e4, Kathy McMahon’s response on peakoilblues.com is brilliant:
http://www.peakoilblues.com/blog/?p=806
Phil
Sharon,
Keep your chin up. You are doing the right thing.
What I wouldn’t give to quit my job and stay home with my baby. I’d spend $75 of labor to can $15 of fruit (at home with my baby a few feet away playing) over earning $75 working for the MAN any day.
There is nothing that compares to making something to nourish and care for your family.
There is no amount of money that can replace that feeling.
I’m going to run out and find your book now…and if you would like you can put a little book advert on my blog too.
Regards,
Heather
[...] of much of the discussion. Astyk, who was featured in the article, took issue with the story in a recent post, noting, for example, that her son doesn’t play organized baseball due to scheduling [...]
[...] of much of the discussion. Astyk, who was featured in the article, took issue with the story in a recent post, noting, for example, that her son doesn’t play organized baseball due to scheduling [...]
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