A Voice for the Voicedn’t
A lot of people working in the media today are mouthpieces - a voice working for, and repeating the focus-grouped slogans of, the powerful. Some rarer, more valuable people are a voice for the voiceless - great reporters and truth tellers, speaking (?) truth to power (?).
I have decided at last to come into the fullness of my own power, and become, with great solemnity - a voice for people who shouldn’t have a voice at all.
Every time I get in my car - i have a car now >:( - i turn the radio to an IRISH radio broadcasting channel where they TALK about NEWS!! That’s the whole channel, they TALK ABOUT NEWS. It’s the biggest load of crap you could possibly listen to. Every single news item they cover is about the M50 being clogged, the Health System being clogged, their own bowels being clogged, and they clog clog clog all our ears with more shit as they waffle the day away raking in advertiser fees and giving your landlord - their target audience - giving him brainworms. They never suggest SOLUTIONS to these issues - that would be “““POLITICAL””” (which they are NOT! haven’t you heard? It’s possible to be NON POLITICAL (or so say the people benefiting from the STATUS QUO)). They just whinge and moan and occasionally blame poor people, and pretend that the people in charge are trying heir best, because they have MET them and they are DECENT PEOPLE
Two people in PARTICULAR I think are even more annoying than anyone else, and that is an ex-doctor, or maybe they’re still a doctor, but they are a radio broadcaster (like FRASIER CRANE but without any of the wit, charm, or charisma that that character had) and her little homunculus man, the Great Interlocutor. The Interlocuter is either heir to a mustard empire or a guy who shovels solid fuel, I don’t know (or care).
Every time i listen to these people I am blown away. Even by the standards of Irish Talk Radio, these two suck. They are not funny, they are not interesting, and they are not original, which is NORMAL (a prerequisite?) for people in the roles they’re in. What gets under my skin enough for me to write this blog post is that they present and interact with the NEWS as if their own positions are the positions of the vast, reasonable, MATURE majority. They position themselves as every-day people, people just like YOU and someone else NOT ME (Not Normal!) with the same concerns, the same likes and dislikes, we all get up and put our trousers on one leg at a time! Well some of us DONT. SOME of us have much MORE EXPENSIVE TROUSERS THAN OTHERS. And it’s people with expensive trousers that are driving up the prices of my trousers and YOURS.
Recently listening to these two people (and others!) I’ve started to think - do peoples brains calcify once they turn 35? and from then on are they incapable of learning more, and in fact instead of growing after that age, do their “brains” gradually deteriorate, because that’s what it seems like listening to that stupid radio show.
And It is My Opinion that if I were on that show, objecting to the bullshit and challenging these freaks, that the public (that’s you, stupid!) would be much better served. I firmly believe that i am the only person in this country (or any other country) that is Smart and Clever enough to see through the nonsense and (not now, but later) speak Truth to Bullshit.
But I CAN’T because I’m a NOBODY (like you, Stupid!) with no platform, no voice, and no PULL, which I’m sick of because I'm sick of it.
Therefore, I am putting myself forward as a voice for people (me) who don’t deserve to have a voice.
Furthermore, I am of the opinion that (Insert your local shopping centre) should be destroyed.