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Adam Kenner

Disney accused by Catholic cleric of corrupting children's minds - Telegraph - 0 views

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shared by Adam Kenner on 01 Dec 08 - Cached
  • "Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products."
  • "This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit our imagination".
  • "Once planted there they can make us endlessly greedy. And that is exactly what they are doing."
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  • . He criticises the obsession with celebrity, which he blames for creating jealousy and a society in which people are dissatisfied with their life.
  • Adam Kenner on 01 Dec 08
     
    "Where once morality and meaning were available as part of our free cultural inheritance, now corporations sell them to us as products." "This is basically the commercial exploitation of spirituality," he says, adding that as a result Disney and other corporations "inhabit our imagination".
Matt Schrader

The Dirty Truth About Street Cleaning in LA - 0 views

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shared by Matt Schrader on 03 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Matt Schrader on 03 Nov 09
     
    In a piece reminiscent of classic "60 Minutes," USC journalism student Matt Schrader exposes the dirty side of parking enforcement and street cleaning in downtown Los Angeles. Schrader found that while parking enforcement is out in droves ticketing cars, and mostly on street cleaning days (making the city $15,000 an hour!), the streets they're patrolling aren't even being cleaned. The best line of the piece is from a guy who got ticketed on one of those streets: "They have the manpower to ticket you, but they don't have the manpower to actually do the job."
  • Matt Schrader on 03 Nov 09
     
    In a piece reminiscent of classic "60 Minutes," USC journalism student Matt Schrader exposes the dirty side of parking enforcement and street cleaning in downtown Los Angeles. Schrader found that while parking enforcement is out in droves ticketing cars, and mostly on street cleaning days (making the city $15,000 an hour!), the streets they're patrolling aren't even being cleaned. The best line of the piece is from a guy who got ticketed on one of those streets: "They have the manpower to ticket you, but they don't have the manpower to actually do the job."
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