Poster child for what>??
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Topic: News on News
In a way, it's hard not to think of Chris Farley when reading or hearing about the recent death of a former national skating champion which I blogged about earlier today.
You remember him don't you? The rotound, chortly ever-funny roly-poly comedian who never sold the audience short when the laughs were on him self?
Or do you remember him as New Yorker magazine did in an article shortly before his death: "filled with references to a grotesque Farley, crashing story meetings to bellow about going of to get loaded, and behaving like a repulsive, Rabelaisian infant. In one instance, described attending a wake for the genuinely hideous Michael O'Donaghue;asked, by Bill Murray to eulogize him, then pitilessly mocked for his sincere , unfunny and lachrymose speech about what it had meant to him to join the cast." (thank you Lynne Crosbie - Globe and Mail, April 08, 2006)
His self victimization in a death defying mix with fame is what ultimately consumed him. We know the story.
More than just part of AdFreak's Freakiest Talk Topics of '07
Chris Farleys family sanctioned and approved the Prometa ad campaign to use the departed Farley as a poster child in its campaign.
"We make a carnival of famous addicts, by revealing their lapses bit by bit, and standing back, as if rejoicing at the decline of the once powerful" - Lynn Crosbie writing on the death and ad campaign in the Globe and Mail
Eight years after his drug-related death at age 33
What no words can say.
They picked the wrong kid to mess with when they dragged nine-year-old Nora Bernard off to the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School in 1945.
When I heard and read in the news of a murder of a native indian residential school attendee and survivor advocate I was twice shocked with the fact that the perpetrator of the heinous crime was her own grandson.
Grandson of Nova Scotia aboriginal activist charged in her death
I feel affected by this in more ways than just one because I have often availed my self of my otherwise free time to advocate for the government to pay closer personal attention to the issues that harbinges with the issues of residential school attendees.
As much as I may have felt alone as a voice in the wilderness on this at times, I have known all along that groups such as the Assembly of First Nations have also tried to pinch hit for us with the Government. I have known there are many,many,many intergenerational trauma survivors but the lax at best and at worst neglible response from the Government has left us without cohesiveness.
So, in my opinion, as someone inextricably tied with and affected by these issues cropping up, afforded a first hand view, and allowed by the Internet to say so, the Government has extended its theory of vicarious responsibility and reach to be applied in this case for further neglect of its duties to provide for children entrusted to their care.
All the rest is just pure media intensive ratings geared optics.
The government did so fail her twice, even if only in the mind of one lonely blogger on the edges of cyberspace.
Allow me to quote someone disallowed from appearing from any one of Italys seven tv networks.
Beppe Grillo
"Therefore our country doesnt exist anymore- maybe people from Canada can give a hand in helping us find it"- Beppe Grillo.
Sure Beppe , sure. After it would take a comedian from Italy to upshore the strangling grip of a media empire that wants to run the government (too) to come to Canada to give us a hand as well.
Shameless: Corrente, HarwoodProvidence Journal, RI - 8 Jan 2008Beppe Grillo, a comic and blogger who organized a September “day of rage” demonstration, declared, “The whole kettle of fish stinks to high heaven! ... One man and his blogTurkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - 19 Dec 2007Italy has taken no such survey – had it deigned to it surely would have unanimously elected Beppe Grillo. Beppe who? The 59-year-old Genovese started life ... |
Do you still want the England job now, Fabio?Times Online, UK - 15 Dec 2007Even the nation’s favourite comedian, Beppe Grillo, is depressed – the equivalent of our own dear Dawn French suddenly losing the will to eat cake. ...
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Mainstream media in Canada is not touching the intergenerational trauma issue with a ten foot pole even it extended from the Province of Newfoundland to BC.
That the most horrific and worst case scenario that no one could have predicted in their worst imaginings and the most morbid outcome possibly attributed to some aspect of intergenerational trauma has happened..quickly to be swapped in the attention spans of everyday Canadians in exchange for delivery of the latest sports news...
there will be more stories to follow of native teens and young adults dead or dying, or in jail or commiting acts of violence and being involved in the drug trade or putting their lives and health at risk through prostitution..desperately trying to find a way out of poverty
it makes one wonder if they the media are indeed just feeding themselves off the news they report and little could take place to provide cause to alter their course.
With such scant attention from the media and government (used to be church and government) society is bearing the cost in the worst possible way.
Do we care? What has happened to our moral imperitive?
Posted by mach1231
at 1:58 PM PST
Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:57 PM PDT
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