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To: weegee

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=Paul%20Ruditis/104-2923167-5306310


11 posted on 08/04/2005 7:01:29 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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To: weegee

"All you need to know about this book is this quote, taken from the publisher's (Simon & Schuster) own website. "In 2002, Simon & Schuster was integrated with the Paramount motion picture and television studios as part of the Viacom Entertainment Group." Viacom is the media conglomerate that owns, among other properties, MTV and Nickelodeon, and the radio company that employs shock-jock Howard Stern. Author Juliet Schor has written that "the entity most responsible for the commercial exploitation of youth rebellion has been Viacom. The trend began with MTV and its teen audience ... some of that sensibility has trickled down to Nickelodeon's younger target [audience]." The author of Rainbow Party seems to have made his living by writing "books" spun off from television series; now he's a middle-aged guy writing about sexual services performed by 14 year-old girls. This whole thing is nothing more than a cynical, creepy grab by powerful adults for teenagers' wallets. Simon & Schuster should be disgusted with itself, but I suppose its executives are too busy counting all the dollars rolling in. Keep your money, readers."

Any surprise they also own SeeBS?


14 posted on 08/04/2005 7:04:51 AM PDT by weegee (The Rovebaiting by DUAC must stop. It is nothing but a partisan witchhunt.)
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