MissRepresentation.com
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Miss Representation
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July 26, 2006
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. So I have a fancy alarm clock that awakens you slowly, by raising the volume of your intended selection (music or radio) slowly. I’ve given up on identifying the ideal song (should it be jarring or soothing? Vintage Sonic Youth or “The Stars of Track and Field”), and now resign myself to Soterios Johnson (and really, did you think he would look like that?) whispering the days events into my ear -- commingled with the arch inflection of the BBC; by the time I give up on the snooze button, the conflicting tidbits create a truly twisted idea of the world. See, if comes from somewhere.
So why the long-winded prelude? Well, because this morning Soterios told me something that, in my early morning fog, seemed like news important enough to get up early and research, namely that the LMDC announced it was closing. Just like that. I think it was even the phrase itself that woke me up. Finally! I thought, Kevin Rampe is willing to take his public flogging, or Bloomberg forced his hand enough to admit the entire contraption was flawed as best, criminal at worst, and burned down the whole thing.
But it turns out that they aren't shuttering the whole affair because they haven’t done a single thing right in the past five years, but because they think their job is done. Not only done, but done well. We could team up, the whole lot of us, dozens of journalists and those who presume to be, hundreds of avidly interested individuals, thousands of residents, who uniformly and to a person seem to think the diametric opposite of this fact. But no amount of fist pounding or yelling ever penetrates the collective ear wax of this exercise in bureaucratic fumbling, so why don’t we allow them to shuffle off in relative peace? Why not? Nothing else has worked.
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