Remember?
The jazz trumpet player who had his arm broken by Paris (Charles DeGaulle) airport security?
CBS Nightly News tonight. They spent three hours interviewing him a couple of weeks ago and now they tell him…and he told me…that the story will run tonight. (Friday, 11/24/06.) 6:45 PM EST they said, although if you really want to see it you might have to watch Katy Kutie or her sub from the get-go because “Breaking News” like W. choking on a pretzel or a few hundred incinerated Iraqis…both stories being considered roughly equal in importance by the corporation corpses who really call the media shots…might change the schedule somewhat.
It happens…
I’m rooting for the pretzel, myself.
And I am rooting for Valery as well.
Read on.
Big media means more chance for Valery to get some recompense from Chas. DeGaulle and his racist, imperialist inheritors.
We shall see.
But one way or another, this shows the way “the blogs” work.
From the relatively small audience of two left of center blogs starting on Sept. 13th (Booman Tribune and My Left Wing-“The Ballad of Valery Ponomarev. It’s Their Way Or It’s Their Way.” Here and here. And “What Good Are Blogs? The Slow, Steady Action of the Starfish on the Clam. [Valery Ponomarev Knows]” Here and here. ) to larger centrist blogs like dKos and special interest websites like The Jazz Times, to the International Herald Tribune and the NY Times, thence to the ears of millions on CBS.
A précis of the way it works.
Pas à pas. (Step by step.)
VIVE LA RÉVOLUTION DE L’INFORMATION!!!
VAYA!!!
JUST like what happened in November.
From God’s mouth to our ears, and thence to theirs. (If we shout loud enough and long enough to drown out the Cookie Monster commercials, of course.)
It ain’t perfect…but it’s working.
VAYA!!!
And thanks from Valery to all who helped.
AG