As long as we are attacking media, I will add my two cents. I noticed Fox Network is airing ANOTHER Michael Jackson Interview Special. This one is subtitled as: The Footage You Were Never Meant to See. This is absolutely ridiculous. What do they have? Jackson caught picking his nose before interview? Grainy survelliance tape of him taking a dump? I wonder, though, is the public's taste really being corrupted by the celebrity culture this few decades, or is television network just fufilling the needs that has been there all along?

In other interesting news, apparently Yale grad students just voted to strike, to force the school to recognize their union, better wages, etc. It's fun to imagine what a TA strike would look like. Will the school authority bus in out of work PhDs as scabs? I wonder what kind of hell they must be living through to prompt them to vote overwhelmingly to strike, which seems so out of norms for us mild-mannered academics. Maybe New Haven crappiness is reason enough.

On the side note, I feel it's always more disturbing than usual when teachers or medical professionals strike. It's just that doing well in their jobs hinges on their affable, gentle professional persona, and it doesn't quite gel with the militancy of the picket lines. One of my high school teacher told me that in the 70's there was a teacher strike in my old high school. Everyday kids' bus have to inch into the campus surrounded by pickets. There was even a case of a striking teacher spiting at the school bus window! Anyway, my teacher didn't participate in the strike and apparently there are still teachers who won't talk to her because of her refusal.