The Noir City Film Festival is presenting this columnist with an existentialistic budget crisis. Should we buy a series pass and see all the movies (some of which we have seen before)? Should we buy a pass and see enough of the films to make it an economically feasible choice? Should we carefully asses the series schedule and only see the crà �me de la crà �me of the selection and wind up spending less than the pass would cost?
Recently, choosing a column topic has caused us another existentialistic panic attack. If we write a column featuring some aspects of the contemporary political scene, such as pointing out how the American media seems to be singing a very coordinated chorus questioning Mitt Romney's lack of universal appeal within the Republican Party, will we lose our audience for not running with the wolf pack of jackals who apparently want to help do to Romney what was done to Howard Dean in the 2004 primary season?
Howard Dean became an inconvenient frontrunner and so the press was ordered ("and ask "How high?' on the way up") to declare the man for whom the Republicans had made extensive preparations (like the legal paperwork for the swiftboat groups?) to defeat the new "frontrunner." The press responded in "your slightest word is my command" fashion.
Could America's diverse and independent voices of political commentary, in the corporate owned realm of mass media, be coached on what they can and cannot say in America's Free Press? We seem to be the only one saying: "You bet your sweet, weekly paycheck that can happen!"
If, however, we write a column about contemporary culture that features some new information about a celebrity (such as some possible Banksy [or Blek le rat?] murals spotted recently in
If we write a column with a unique bit of political opinion and/or information, that gets more hits which type of column suits us best?
What if, among the anemic hits the digital auditors notice that it got some log-ons from the New York Times computer? Well then maybe the site management can overlook some anemic total hits numbers and give the columnist the amount of tolerance for eccentricity that Dirty Harry got? Does it impress the site M. E. if a writer scoops the great gray lady?
In the solipsistic world of content providers, who knows?
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