Gilding the Donald

By Ana Marie Cox

If you or I were to enter Donald Trump’s apartment—or, as Trump calls it, “the most beautiful apartment in the whole world”—we would at best stifle a burst of helpless laughter. It is testimony to the combined power of television and greed [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    haha this is why i dont watch tv anymore…i say they bring back loony toons…

    United States Posted by joe on Feb 17, 2004 at 8:39 AM

    JENSEN “We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale.  The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.  The world is a business, Mr. Beale!  It has been that way since man crawled out of the slime, and our children, Mr. Beale, will live to see that perfect world without war and famine, oppression and brutality—-one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.  And I have chosen you to preach this evangel, Mr. Beale.”

    HOWARD “Why me?

    JENSEN   “Because you’re on television, dummy.”

    “...This world quite simply is a vast cosmology of small corporations orbiting around larger corporations who, in turn, revolve around giant corporations and this whole, endless, ultimate cosmology is expressly designed for the production and consumption of useless things.”—- HOWARD BEALE
                          NETWORK   Paddy Chayefsky 1976

    United States Posted by J Hoover Bushwah on Feb 20, 2004 at 2:45 AM
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