Where’s Keeeeeeeeevvvv?

Like a spigot that gets turned on – and off – there has been very little in the “news” about Keeeeeeeeevvvvv since the election. Nor, for that matter, about the ongoing slaughter in Gaza.

This constitutes what you might call a tell. About the nature of the “news.”  More finely, about the control over what is presented as the “news” by those who control it. Who are these controllers? More like what are these controllers. They are a handful – about half a dozen – interlocking corporate cartels. Together, they own the outlets that broadcast and publish (print and online) what is called the “news.”

The control the flow of what you’re allowed to know. By letting you know what they want you to know – and ignoring what they would like for you to not know. For example – as regards the latter – what is going on in Western North Carolina? Does anyone who is not actually there know? How could they? The “news” turned the spigot off weeks ago. It is thus as if there was no “news” to know. Before the handful of corporate cartels acquired control over the outlets that broadcast the “news” – or don’t broadcast it – there would have been ongoing coverage of the news coming out of Western North Carolina and the adjacent areas of Tennessee – where catastrophic damage was done, first by the hurricane and then by the malevolent inaction (and suppression of private action) of the federal government.

Because that sort of thing used to be news.

Keeeeeeeeeevvvvvvv was in the “news” almost non-stop for years, after the sketchy election back in 2020 – which the “news” assured everyone was legitimate, notwithstanding circumstances that suggested it might not have been. When the news was not controlled, newspeople – a term that once meant journalists – were employed to check into such things, because it might have been news. That being the business of the news, once.

Now you can hardly find a peep in the “news” about Keeeeeeeeeevvvvv. It is as if the war over there had been cancelled. One can surmise various reasons for the cartels turning off the spigot of “news” about Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvv – but the most likely one is that things are not going to plan in Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvvv.

Or maybe they are.

How would we know?

It is the same in the Unholy Land, where all-of-a-sudden there is next to now “news” about the holocaust going on there. Perhaps because the roles have been reversed – and because the ones doing the stormtrooping are also aligned with the ones who control the cartels that control what is broadcast – or not – on the “news.”

In prior times, both of these things – Keeeeeeeeeeeeevvvvv and the ongoing holocaust in Gaza – would have been pretty much all of the news. Because such things as regional canker sores that could flare up into a world war involving nuclear armed powers – and the indiscriminate, mass slaughter of civilians – used to be understood to be news. 

Instead, we gets “news” about the possible sexual errata of Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth. We “learn” – a word advertisers like to use – about the things they want us to know about and find out nothing about the things they’d prefer we not know about. They know that they can control what we think about by controlling the “story,” which they can do by not telling it.

Meanwhile, the situation in Keeeeeeeeeeeevvvvv percolates. The holocaust continues. But it’s easy not to worry about it when you don’t have to think about it.

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