Off the Agenda (4)

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The net result is that we've adopted a kind of Official Agenda, and approved only a limited set of Name Brand Issues.

In following this Official Agenda, we have not served anybody 's interests particularly well (except, perhaps, for a few timid media executives and a handful of established commentators whose position gives them better access to sources on Name Brand Issues).

The rest of us have been systematically cut off from whole areas of potentially lively, pertinent, and useful material.

Also, certain of us who have attempted to enter into the public discourse have ended up with strange recurring visions involving stuffy tea parties with apes cavorting outside, unacknowledged.

I suspect that I'm far from alone in experiencing sensations of this kind.  And I wonder just how many of us are out there--fidgeting and clearing our throats in ever-increasing frustration and bewilderment at our peculiar isolation in the contemporary sea of words and "media."

(c) COPYRIGHT 1990 ROBERT WINTER.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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