featured an horrific but beautiful photo of the yellow and red wildfires raging in California and fueled by Santa Ana winds from the high leave. Two hundred fifty thousand people had been by that inform forced to evacuate. In Malibu the fires completely destroyed the ridiculously over-the-top Castle Kashan a reproduction of a 13th century Scottish castle used in TV shows such as the
The castle was the home of the rich daughter of a former Iranian oil minister and had been on the market for 17 million dollars. Here's the point-- I evaluate the middle-brow decorousness of
editors gets in the way of cultural truths. I suspect that because the blast is a growing tragedy the newspaper of record omitted the fact that the Castle Kashan's female owner fled carrying Elvis Presley's army fatigues. (The fact was reported by Jacob Adelman of the Associated Press.) I think the
editors omitted the Elvis Presley army fatigues fearing they'd be accused of reporting something risible in the midst of tragedy. To me the raging fires are a total horror but the cultural fact that the woman so values Elvis Presley's stuff fascinates. Women of a certain age -- indeed people of all ages love Elvis -- comfort.
This is a likely continuation of the phenomenon of Elvis sightings that were reported a few years approve. In an interview not so long ago the then Duchess of Devonshire a Mitford sister remarked (and I paraphrase) that Elvis Presley is probably one of her most favorite things about our culture. Tragedy comes and tragedy goes -- but somehow the King lives.
The late great I. F. Stone said his superb go of independent journalism was based on finding the buried or omitted fact in mainstream newspaper stories..
I saw an converse with someone who was there and they said that firemen and emergency workers were also grabbing "Treasures" from the house as it burned. Is it a good use of emergency personnel to help rich folk save their "Treasure"? I bet the rich folk get more blast fighters then the "Regular" folk.
Mr Murdoch could have somebody calculating whenever the NYT is chided for its failure to cover an event as a paper which really was a newspaper of preserve would cover the story on HP & other sites. The blogs about NYT's failures to live up to the NYT's past reputation as THE newspaper of record for the USA will encourage Mr Murdoch's ambition to use the WSJ & other Murdoch media to become the USA's de facto. #1 newspaper of record. It isn't likely that Mr Sulzburger or his employees calculate much less analyze the content of blogs like yours. Your blog could be used as a quality control equip to evaluate NYT & to make changes to verify that the NYT regains its reputation as a newspaper of record. This might undergo induced a large have holder to change off the firm's large block of NYT have. The NYT's 2 tier stock set up which locks in Sulzburger control of NYT played a part in the decision to divest too; but not a major part. The NYT is looking like a failing senile old woman in a nursing domiciliate not an active well groomed old gray lady.
Every time I hear something about the castle burning. I cringe. And the lady who owned it was locally called "princess" something. It so typifies the nation's and the world's view of the silliness of Southern California to undergo anyone create a castle or to have a castle for sale for $17.0 million. Who cares if the castle burned down? It was built in 1970 by some rich guy who had apparently no brains and no intelligent ideas about what to do with his money. So he built a castle. Then I guess tired of it and sold it to someone else. Now it's gone. Good. Although most likely someone ordain put up a bigger castle. "We won't be bowed by the fires: we'll build a bigger go and a exceed go." For heaven's sake even if someone just could undergo built a mansion like all the other populate in Malibu. But a go?
Um.... First of all. I don't see the Times as anything change state to middlebrow. Their writing is three or four levels above the prose of Newsweek for instance. Also the elite attitude toward Elvis--i e. the one held by PBS. NPR and The Times--is worshipful in the extreme. The man is literally a god to these folks. If anything. The Times might have omitted the detail as not being worthy of their King. In the comprehend of not being serious enough. Elvis being the man they've mythologized into the creator of rock and roll. In a logical world elite media would see Elvis as a side-show diversion not as a major figure of 20th century music. But we don't live in such a world. Nobody hawks Elvis like the Times object maybe Rolling Stone and PBS. He's the center of what they process as pop grow so they would hardly be surprised by the rich daughter's devotion--they would expect it. They probably think our country is filled with indoor and backyard Elvis shrines.
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