Media Manipulation Russel Crowe Style

**Papewaio** · 06-07-2006, 03:37

Although it comes across in the style as the hatchet weilded by the woman scorned it does funnily enough reveal the ego and cunning of Crowe.

When I was Russell Crowe's stooge

There are a few choice nuggets and it is interesting how are own desires can be used against us.

I thought hard upon things over the next few days, until finally deciding that the content of Russell's music mattered little. The question was whether I could care for him enough to want what he did. And I have to admit he was taking charge of my heart - the rich boy's smile and the beggar's eyes and the volumes of man and boy in between. I found him clever and engaging, not at all the buffoon of modern legend. I was charmed for sure and, if I were a woman, I thought, I would fall for him madly. As a grown man, I felt I could trust him. Unless he was a very good actor.

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So I wrote a story that betrayed my memory, and thus betrayed my journalism. I didn't write about the private things he'd confided in me, the anti-social habits I'd noted with interest, or those damning little utterances that clang like bells in the ears of a journalist. I didn't write about the manipulation I had seen with my own eyes, the columnists he'd done sly deals with, or the critics with whom he was warm and friendly and generous with his time, only to tell me later he thought them dull and stupid. I didn't reveal that he wished he had shoved the phone right up that concierge's kazoo.

A good piece and helps give insight into how people are manipulated within the media, politics and religion...

**Brenus** · 06-07-2006, 21:24

Interesting. It shows how journalists are willing to give-up their allege principles for what they think to be right. Tintin was a reporter (he reported), journalists are making history.
To read the TRUTH, Terry Pratchet, is a good introduction to understand journalism.

**Papewaio** · 06-07-2006, 22:04

I think it revealed how willing we manipulate ourselves.

On a similar tone I was watching the review of the Da Vinci Code... the reviewer didn't bother to watch the film, instead in reviewed the marketing storm by Sony... yet what he ended up revealing more then anything else was a pettiness with the way his powerbase of telling people what is good and not to watch by the marketing teams. The reviewer was quite petulant, sometimes I do wonder if reviewers don't release that they are not the content but just the gift wrapping.

**Lemur** · 06-07-2006, 22:06

Oooh, can this be another thread where we pile on journalists and the media? Can we talk about what scum they are? Threads like that are fun, 'cause it's always fun --and safe! -- to diss the fourth estate. A free press -- who needs 'em?

**Papewaio** · 06-07-2006, 22:11

Well actually read the 13 page article and it is more revealing of the replacement of a free press with those who trade print for favours (much like the New York scandal where the guy asked for a 100k for being a press pimp)... so this isn't about the 4th estate it is about those who trade on the good name of the 4th to print untruths and get compenstated in some way to do so.