{"id":11134,"date":"2012-03-31T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2012-04-03T14:42:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:42:07","slug":"how-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-be-a-senior-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/31\/how-old-do-you-have-to-be-to-be-a-senior-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"How Old Do You Have To Be To Be A Senior Editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook the other day, I saw a link to a piece entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-the-fifth-element-explained-lady-gaga-and-everything-else-you-need-to-know-about-modern-lifeback-in-97-2012-3?op=1\" target=\"_blank\">How &#8216;The Fifth Element&#8217; Predicted Lady Gaga And Everything Else About Modern Life\u2014Back in &#8217;97<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I postulate that anyone writing for money on an Internet site is 25 years old or younger.  Why?  Let&#8217;s use this piece as an example.<\/p>\n<p>The article says that <em>The Fifth Element<\/em>, a fine film that I&#8217;ve seen many times, predicts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Yes, a fashion model can carry an entire movie.<\/strong><br \/>But fashion models have been in films for decades.  Ever heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raquel_Welch\" target=\"_blank\">Racquel Welch<\/a>?  She modeled before she carried films.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jane_Fonda\" target=\"_blank\">Jane Fonda<\/a>?  I know, if you&#8217;re like me, you think Nat King Cole carried <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cat Ballou<\/a><\/em>, but her name was over the title.\n<p>If you go out on the Internet and conduct a search for models who became actresses, those lists written and poached by 25-year-olds do only include fashion models who became actresses in the late 1990s.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>We love Divas<\/strong><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Is Diva Plavalaguna from the movie any less weird than Lady Gaga from Earth? Or Nicki Minaj, for that matter?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What on earth?  People who appreciate divas did not appreciate divas before 1997?  Good lord amercy, what about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diana_Ross\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Ross<\/a>?  Does he mean only lady singers who look weird?  Maybe this writer&#8217;s granddad can explain <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wendy_O._Williams\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy O. Williams<\/a> or, frankly, any pop singer from the 1980s to him.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarah_Brightman\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Brightman<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cher\" target=\"_blank\">Cher<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madonna_%28entertainer%29\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>.  Come on, this is where <em>divas<\/em> started?<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>And cruise ships.<\/strong>\n<p>Behold this howler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cruise ship industry was still in its infancy in 1997.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, <em>what<\/em>?  1997 is 20 years <em>after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075529\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Love Boat<\/a><\/em> debuted on television.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Royal_Caribbean_Cruises_Ltd.\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Caribbean<\/a> was founded in 1967.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carnival_Cruise_Lines\" target=\"_blank\">Carnival Cruise Lines<\/a> was founded in 1972.  That&#8217;s a damn long infancy.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terrorists!<\/strong>\n<p>Another howler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 1997, terrorism was something that happened in far away place, to other people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep in mind, 1997 is four years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing\" target=\"_blank\">first World Trade Center bombing<\/a> and two years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma_City_bombing\" target=\"_blank\">bombing in Oklahoma City<\/a>.  It&#8217;s some number of years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Weatherman_actions\" target=\"_blank\">bombings in the late 1960s and 1970s<\/a>.  A couple decades past <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Cuba-US_aircraft_hijackings\" target=\"_blank\">airplane hijackings in the United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The author goes onto say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since 2001, however, it&#8217;s been on the cultural frontburner almost continuously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Movies before <em>The Fifth Element<\/em> didn&#8217;t feature terrorists (or fake terrorists)?  Uh, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Die Hard<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090927\/\" target=\"_blank\">Delta Force<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089348\/\" target=\"_blank\">Invasion USA<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0111503\/\" target=\"_blank\">True Lies<\/a><\/em>, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>In the news, one never heard about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Munich_massacre\" target=\"_blank\">1972 Munich Olympics<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iran_hostage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Iranian Hostage Crisis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lebanon_hostage_crisis\" target=\"_blank\">constant kidnappings throughout the Middle East<\/a>, or the 1985 hijacking of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MS_Achille_Lauro#1985_hijacking\" target=\"_blank\">Achille Lauro<\/a> (of course the author didn&#8217;t hear about this, since it took place on a cruise ship before the industry was in its infancy).<\/p>\n<p>No, indeed, <em>The Fifth Element<\/em> was the thing that brought terrorists to our attention.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>The real estate crisis.<\/strong>\n<p>Silly human, the real estate crisis only involves New York City.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In future New York, we see that apartments for ordinary people are reduced to tiny cubicles. Not too different from the current New York!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 1997, all New York apartments looked like the sets of 1940s films.  Every studio was a three-bedroom penthouse.  But in 2000, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolph_Guiliani\" target=\"_blank\">Rudy Guiliani<\/a> sold 75% of Manhattan to New Jersey to buy its silence in covering his affair with Judith Nathan, which resulted in the small sizes for domiciles that continues to this day.  Or something.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reality TV<\/strong><br \/>\n<blockquote><p>People forget that reality TV as we know it now didn&#8217;t exist in 1997.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096563\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cops<\/a><\/em> debuted in 1989.  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103520\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Real World<\/em><\/a> debuted in 1992.  I mean, really.  A quick search of Wikipedia gives you a history of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reality_television\" target=\"_blank\">reality television<\/a>.  As to shameless self-promoting television hosts, come on.  We can go back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mortondowneyjrhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Morton Downey, Jr.<\/a>  Or Geraldo, who got his nose broken on his television show in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/11\/04\/nyregion\/geraldo-rivera-s-nose-broken-in-scuffle-on-his-talk-show.html\" target=\"_blank\">1988<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Stern\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Stern<\/a> show was syndicated eleven years before the film, and it features a hucksterish outrageous personality transmitting his thoughts via radio waves to your receiver.<\/p>\n<p>Who could have seen this coming?  Only the divine oracle that is <em>The Fifth Element<\/em>.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other things in the list are about Bruce Willis&#8217;s lingering popularity (well, he&#8217;s still working, but I wouldn&#8217;t say he&#8217;s still &#8220;huge&#8221;) and the lingering popularity of the Leelo costume for Hallowe&#8217;en (coincidentally, it covers little of the feminine physique).<\/p>\n<p>Like so many things, the piece has a certain cultural myopia that can&#8217;t see anything before the middle 1990s and comes off, at least to this old man, as annoying because of it.  <\/p>\n<p>But it does reflect an adolescent viewpoint that says, &#8220;All history began with my birth or self-awareness&#8221; that cripples our contemporary society and discourse.<\/p>\n<p>NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>  Thanks for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/14252\">link<\/a>, Mr. H.  I&#8217;m not sure if he means I&#8217;m not self-aware or not.  Which might prove that I am not.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><b>UPDATE:<\/b><\/font>  Thanks, also, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/tab-clearing.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, Ms. K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Facebook the other day, I saw a link to a piece entitled How &#8216;The Fifth Element&#8217; Predicted Lady Gaga And Everything Else About Modern Life\u2014Back in &#8217;97. I postulate that anyone writing for money on an Internet site is 25 years old or younger. Why? Let&#8217;s use this piece as an example. 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