{"id":63,"date":"2007-03-24T06:46:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2007-03-24T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T13:00:58","slug":"scarier-than-a-horror-movie-sadder-than-joni-mitchell-lyrics-more-insidious-than-rupert-murdoch-oh-wait-rupert-murdoch-is-part-of-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Scarier than a horror movie, sadder than Joni Mitchell lyrics, more insidious than Rupert Murdoch&#8230; oh wait, Rupert Murdoch is part of The Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2007\/03\/Matts_sick_day_19March2007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMatt stayed home from work on Monday because of a stomach virus.<br \/>\nLily and Damian kept him company on his sick day.<br \/>\n(Dave, from Matt&#8217;s work, said &#8220;Lily is morphing into a superhero.&#8221;)<br \/>\n19 March 2007<\/div>\n<p>I just watched the Frontline special on marketing to teenagers, titled &#8220;Merchants of Cool.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 You can view the entire episode here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/cool\/view\/\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/cool\/view\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After watching this show, it reaffirms my decision not to have television in our house.\u00c2\u00a0 Our kids are going to be bombarded enough with this crap just by being a part of this society; we can lessen the impact by not having cable television.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8220;rage rock&#8221; is <em>awful<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The lyrics are awful.\u00c2\u00a0 Geez, what does it say about our society that our kids listen to such soulless, tuneless, violent non-music?<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, there is another Frontline episode, by the same fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rushkoff.com\/\">Douglas Rushkoff<\/a>, about marketing and advertising in general, not just to teens: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/persuaders\/view\/\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/persuaders\/view\/<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt stayed home from work on Monday because of a stomach virus. Lily and Damian kept him company on his sick day. (Dave, from Matt&#8217;s work, said &#8220;Lily is morphing into a superhero.&#8221;) 19 March 2007 I just watched the Frontline special on marketing to teenagers, titled &#8220;Merchants of Cool.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 You can view the entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}