Henry Giroux: Tiger Woods and the Branding of Public Discourse
This latest corporate media scandal has a loong shelf life .. here’s Giroux…
Being an icon for the age of heroic consumption and the widely accepted consumer politics of infantilization did not protect him from falling prey to the very values that so recklessly overtook his life .. The only value of such scandals will be to push up the ratings and profits of those privileged classes and corporate elite who support the relentlessly cruel and iniquitous institutions .. hidden away beyond a culture of glitz, greed, conformity, celebrity and narcissism
is it me or do these stories always seem to come up when something that actually matters (health care) is taking place?! – nothing to see here people, just look over there at the shiny scandal we got cookin – mab .. read more
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