I'm not actually the editor. But my guess is that the other two contributors are asleep at the moment, which makes me all-powerful for the time being. If you have or are about to read the post immediately preceding this one, you'll notice an abrupt difference in tone from the others. What is the reason for this? To explain, I'll need to briefly discuss how and why we established Creative Differences in the first place.
Creative Differences came about as the result of a week long dream we had to change the way people view popular media. Actually, that's not true. Creative Differences was our excuse to come up with fake movie and book ideas, write smarmy rejoinders to entertainment related news stories and generally air our bitter -- but clever! -- grievances against those who make a lot more money than we do.
But that's a pretty vague charter and it's hardly set in stone. That's why contributor Omar posted the jarring, incisive and important post you'll find below. It's political. It's polemic. Even he admits that some of it rehearses an ongoing criticism of how mainstream newsmedia addresses (or doesn't address) issues of violence and race. But some things, he reminds us, require reiteration if they're ever going to be different.
Creative Differences was not and is not intended to be a political blog and it was and is intended to generally be a place that you can find jokes that we think are funny (and sort of hope you find amusing as well). But Creative Differences is also a place where you will find biting criticism of the major media, in its capacity both as an entertainer and an informer. Sometimes that criticism can take the form of satire, but sometimes it must be honest and direct. Creative Differences will not shy away from those demands when they arise. To so so would be both uncreative and uncourageous.
Enjoy. [makes farting noise by placing hand under arm]
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I realize I am probably your only reader now, after seeing your decision to make Omar a contributor. As a concerned reader hoping his interests are looked after, how could you make such a disasterous decision? Omar's first (and I hope only) contribution was exactly what we've come to expect from this right-leaning ranter. Iraq this, dogs that. Please. I come to this site because of it's standards (and book and film ideas), which I now see have gone the way of Omar's Chicago White Sox--down the drain.
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