It seems like John Lennon was not an uber-grammarian — whatever.

Yesterday I watched “Wag the Dog” (1997) again (see “Who’s on Top?“).

In her podcast episode, Mrs. Phetasy goes on a long rant about a wide variety of things (she briefly compares herself to a “Dollar Store Walter Cronkite” before she gets to her segment named “Breaking Bridget” about conflicts in the Middle East), including propaganda.

Mrs. Phetasy could probably could name quite a few influencers besides so-called governments about which she might get upset about time and again. She often does — when she refers to “feeding the algorithm” (I guess she also seems somewhat challenged when faced with distinguishing between single instances and collective pluralities).

In summary, I want to recommend this episode because of her own abilities to act as an influencer — and that is where the link to “Wag the Dog” comes from 😉 ). Yet the distractions of the hour, the day, the month, the year, … the main distraction of our times is that there is (purported to be) a clear distinction between mainstream media which many people seem to distrust and the so-called “search engines” which most people seem to trust with blind faith.

For more about such fun & games, there is so much more to “read all about it” in pretty much each and every post over at the “Social Business” blog. 🙂