Posted 5:18 PM by Gene

The Mogul's Friend, who must also be considered in the running for JACK's job, writes a supremely annoying article on his Alphabet Soup. The fact is, everything about it is satisfactory to news hacks because it leaves the media's overweaning power untouched. By moving responsibility for content from the industry to "the parents," JACK committed a masterstroke by vastly increasing their power to dictate the terms of life and vastly reducing their culpability for it. In short, their stainless-steel fist got a titanium glove. It should not surprise us that the alleged board of parents that determines which letters go into the soup is more secretive than the CIA, yet another manifestation of power. So long as the only thing that news hacks want is a version of the late Gene "All-Thumbs" Siskel's "A" rating (that millionaire fraud never read The Scarlet Letter, or anything else), which inspired the NC-17, so long as news hacks endorse the status quo by default, there will be no real change, and the system will remain an artistic and societal injustice. FACE IT, Mogul's Friend: maybe CENSORHIP WAS BETTER. God knows people like PC RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! practice it.