With Ferguson, even more people are discovering what I learned as a nineteen-year-old escorting mainstream media for the US military: that is, the media almost never reports what really happened, but rather some sexed-up, nearly fact-free version of events that reproduces the prejudices and obsessions of their audiences.

The truth really doesn’t matter. Gaining as much attention and thus the most eyeballs and ad clicks is what matters.

You think the media is working for you?

No, they are not and never were. They are working for the people who pay them, i.e., the one-percenter white male over-50s who run the media in reality.

As in most of life in late capitalism, if you follow the money you know right where to look.

From a comment here:

German police officers fired a total of 85 bullets in 2011, 49 of which were warning shots, the German publication Der Spiegel reported.

Officers fired 36 times at people, killing six and injuring 15. This is a slight decline from 2010, when seven people were killed and 17  injured. Ninety-six shots were fired in 2010.

Meanwhile, in the United States, The Atlantic reported that in April, 84 shots were fired at one murder suspect in Harlem, and another 90 at an unarmed man in Los Angeles.

‘MURICA.

I don’t mind vocal fry in regular speech, but I absolutely cannot stand it in songs. First of all, if you’re using vocal fry in a song, you’re almost certainly off pitch.

Second, it just sounds bad, like you broke your voice. While ok in regular speech, while performing it makes you sound like you need to take a break. Or perhaps never sing again.

Vocal fry just has no place in music, really.