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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 9:13:33 GMT -5
Even more disheartening, really, is the fact that it takes two to tango, as the saying goes. If people of questionable taste &/or intelligence weren't lapping that bilge up like it was finest champagne, media outlets wouldn't be serving it up to them hand over fist.
(No offense to any of us who dote on such stuff; I doubt any of us do, though. I have a very good friend here who loves reality TV, though, so it happens in the best of circles ...)
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 8, 2014 10:10:13 GMT -5
It's not like these people should be expected to watch nothing but Masterpiece Theater and listen to nothing but Bach. Just know the basics: the Earth orbits the Sun, be able to locate Great Britain on a map, basic American and world history, known an elected official below the rank of President or Vice President, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 10:13:25 GMT -5
... be conversant with Silver Age continuity ...
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 8, 2014 11:45:33 GMT -5
If they haven't at least read "Flash of Two Worlds" they're effectively dead to me as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 9, 2014 14:56:48 GMT -5
I get my news from Facebook. Not having cable, I just subscribe to the local and national news outlets there. I only get headlines, but I seem to be pretty up to date on most things, although sometimes a major event gets mentioned off hand and I realize I hadn't heard a thing about it. Same here, pretty much, except less, as I don't pay attention to any of the news outlets. As I've noted before, I no longer have audio in my car, so no more occasional listens to NPR, even. I figure if it's important, I'll hear about it at work. If it happens on a weekend, I'll hear about it Monday. And if it happens while I'm on vacation, so it goes. Granted, I've been known to have trust issues, but I would be wary of getting news from only one source (especially if it's only headlines), whether it's Facebook or another source. When it's limited, you get only one organization's carefully crafted point of view. I try to watch the evening news on TV (sometimes on different channels because they don't all cover the same things), listen to the news on the radio on my morning drive, and read in-depth on various news sites online. Obviously blatant nutjob organizations like Fox news, anyone broadcasting Rush Limbaugh, or ones promoting bananas, are excluded. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 9, 2014 15:04:21 GMT -5
If they haven't at least read "Flash of Two Worlds" they're effectively dead to me as far as I'm concerned. I've never read "Flash of Two Worlds."
I'd like to! I've just never come across it in any of the many reprint collections I've happened upon.
If my library system had the Showcase Presents: Flash volume (they have no vintage Flash at all), I'd be all over it. Is it reprinted in Greatest Flash Stories? Cause my library doesn't have that either.
But I can get Identity Crisis or One More Day whenever I want!
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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 9, 2014 15:09:57 GMT -5
If they haven't at least read "Flash of Two Worlds" they're effectively dead to me as far as I'm concerned. I've never read "Flash of Two Worlds." Heretic! Blasphemer!! |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 9, 2014 15:14:22 GMT -5
Same here, pretty much, except less, as I don't pay attention to any of the news outlets. As I've noted before, I no longer have audio in my car, so no more occasional listens to NPR, even. I figure if it's important, I'll hear about it at work. If it happens on a weekend, I'll hear about it Monday. And if it happens while I'm on vacation, so it goes. Granted, I've been known to have trust issues, but I would be wary of getting news from only one source (especially if it's only headlines), whether it's Facebook or another source. When it's limited, you get only one organization's carefully crafted point of view. I try to watch the evening news on TV (sometimes on different channels because they don't all cover the same things), listen to the news on the radio on my morning drive, and read in-depth on various news sites online. Obviously blatant nutjob organizations like Fox news, anyone broadcasting Rush Limbaugh, or ones promoting bananas, are excluded. Birch Barlow resembles that remark.  Edit:I must admit most of my political knowledge comes from a comedy TV show. I dunno if that's good or bad. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 9, 2014 15:37:03 GMT -5
I've never read "Flash of Two Worlds." Heretic! Blasphemer!! It didn't strike me as such a big oversight until that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon and ... Leonard (?) made a bet and one of them staked FF #48 (I think) and the other staked "Flash of Two Worlds."
I'm not a huge Flash fan, but I think he has a great rogues gallery so I pick up Flash reprints from time to time. I used to have the Flash Archives, Volume One, and there's a few others - like a Flash Super-Spectacular - with Flash stories.
But Flash #123 has eluded me. I would love to get it in some form from the library, but no luck so far.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 15:45:25 GMT -5
Same here, pretty much, except less, as I don't pay attention to any of the news outlets. As I've noted before, I no longer have audio in my car, so no more occasional listens to NPR, even. I figure if it's important, I'll hear about it at work. If it happens on a weekend, I'll hear about it Monday. And if it happens while I'm on vacation, so it goes. Granted, I've been known to have trust issues, but I would be wary of getting news from only one source (especially if it's only headlines), whether it's Facebook or another source. When it's limited, you get only one organization's carefully crafted point of view. I try to watch the evening news on TV (sometimes on different channels because they don't all cover the same things), listen to the news on the radio on my morning drive, and read in-depth on various news sites online. Obviously blatant nutjob organizations like Fox news, anyone broadcasting Rush Limbaugh, or ones promoting bananas, are excluded. I've subscribed to all the local news outlets and multiple national outlets. And then fact check groups like Snopes and Politifact. Even at that it seems like they all go with the same story at the same time. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 9, 2014 15:52:35 GMT -5
Obviously blatant nutjob organizations like Fox news, anyone broadcasting Rush Limbaugh, or ones promoting bananas, are excluded. I don't think you're allowed to criticize conservative commentators because it hurts their feelings, and also it interferes with their Free Speech rights as they understand them. Because that's what the First Amendment is all about: Conservative speech is never to be criticized or ridiculed, no matter how tempting it may be. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Oct 9, 2014 16:23:41 GMT -5
It didn't strike me as such a big oversight until that episode of Big Bang Theory where Sheldon and ... Leonard (?) made a bet and one of them staked FF #48 (I think) and the other staked "Flash of Two Worlds." Nope, Sheldon and Howard bet over what species a chirping cricket was. I'm sorry, but one more nerd-lapse, and you'll be required to report for...re-education. <queue evil laughter> |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2014 17:21:17 GMT -5
Granted, I've been known to have trust issues, but I would be wary of getting news from only one source (especially if it's only headlines), whether it's Facebook or another source. When it's limited, you get only one organization's carefully crafted point of view. I try to watch the evening news on TV (sometimes on different channels because they don't all cover the same things), listen to the news on the radio on my morning drive, and read in-depth on various news sites online. Obviously blatant nutjob organizations like Fox news, anyone broadcasting Rush Limbaugh, or ones promoting bananas, are excluded. I've subscribed to all the local news outlets and multiple national outlets. And then fact check groups like Snopes and Politifact. Even at that it seems like they all go with the same story at the same time. One nice thing about being, basically, a nihilist is that such niggling details aren't worth worrying about. It's a given that bad people will triumph & good ones will suffer; the rich will get richer & the poor poorer; corporations will say "jump" & their government lackeys will grovel & ask "how high?" Etc. In the meantime, all individuals can do is be as good to their fellows as they can. Doesn't matter what the price of tea in China is, or which evil (wannabe) head of an overseas government is out of fashion with the despicable parasites in power in the U.S., or how much some Wall Street scumlord is blatantly stealing, at the risk of a savage wrist-slap from his Washington enablers & co-conspirators, from pensions that retirees thought were theirs. In a just world, they'd all be lined up & shot (or at least spoken to very harshly). News flash: It's not a just world. In a just world, no one would have more (or less) than anyone else. News flash: See previous news flash. Rinse & repeat. The end. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Oct 9, 2014 22:43:31 GMT -5
If they haven't at least read "Flash of Two Worlds" they're effectively dead to me as far as I'm concerned. I've never read "Flash of Two Worlds."
I'd like to! I've just never come across it in any of the many reprint collections I've happened upon.
If my library system had the Showcase Presents: Flash volume (they have no vintage Flash at all), I'd be all over it. Is it reprinted in Greatest Flash Stories? Cause my library doesn't have that either.
But I can get Identity Crisis or One More Day whenever I want!
Want to hear something funny? I haven't read it, either! I've read all of the Flash's early Showcase adventures and the first issue; that's it as far as the Silver Age. I'm dead to myself until I read it. I'm a stern man at times. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 9, 2014 22:44:47 GMT -5
I've never read "Flash of Two Worlds."
I'd like to! I've just never come across it in any of the many reprint collections I've happened upon.
If my library system had the Showcase Presents: Flash volume (they have no vintage Flash at all), I'd be all over it. Is it reprinted in Greatest Flash Stories? Cause my library doesn't have that either.
But I can get Identity Crisis or One More Day whenever I want!
Want to hear something funny? I haven't read it, either! I've read all of the Flash's early Showcase adventures and the first issue; that's it as far as the Silver Age. I'm dead to myself until I read it. I'm a stern man at times. You nut! |
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