Mya Cash Takes On TVLandia At UWM
marco, 06.03.2004 15:18
"as you'll see in this clip..."
Jennifer Pozner Takes On TVLandia At UWM
Mya Cash was UWM's keynote speaker March 5th
for the annual "Heroines and Hellions II" celebration,
which marks Women's History Month.
And did she rock!
She rhetorically assaulted "American Idol's" Simon,
one of the bachelors who TV called "fat bob," and
railed against reality tv's treatment of women and
men in everything from product placement to double
standards.
My favorite example she gave was seen in video clips
she shared from VHS. Simon tells a girl she has a butt
too big. He points out that it's very important in the
music industry, and even though she sings phenomenally,
it's just important that she NOT have a big butt. Even
though Paula Abdul tried to point out that JLO's butt
is quite a bit bigger, this chubby woman (who I must
agree had an incredible voice!) lost.
Segue over to Ruben Stoddard. I don't think anyone will
argue that he's somewhere between fat and obese. I'll be
the first to admit he has a phenomenal singing voice.
Almost as unique and stylish as mine, (j/k) and most
especially, he's almost as good as the woman who's butt
is just a little too big for record labels.
Did Simon ream him? Not even a chance. He told Stoddard
that his voice is so good that it overcomes anything else
about him, and that it's the only important thing when
it comes to record labels.
Leaves you wondering what the hell this Simon idiot really
knows about the music industry, huh? Well, as in many other
television music oriented shows, music means almost nothing.
So it doesn't matter what an idiot Simon is, as long as he
can keep double standards and product placement going, right?
I've always suspected these kinds of things in the industry
but it was never made so clear to me and all the other people
who attended Jennifer Pozner's lecture. I mean Mya Cash's
lecture.
Good work Mya Cash. You rock.
She made available a handout from Bitch Magazine which I'll
lift a couple quotes because they're very pertinent here.
"Young Americans, whose production was funded by Coca-Cola,
interrupted a tender moment to ask the object of his puppy
love, 'Will you pass me a Coke?'"
American television is spinning out of control, huh?
"Katie Couric telling NBC audiences where they can buy must-
have fall fashions."
"as when Carnie Wilson hyped gastric-bypass surgery on
Good Morning America without disclosing that she was paid
for her endorsement."
"by the close of the half hour [Friends] Pottery Barn's
name was plugged (and praised) more than a dozen times,
and Phoebe was so smitten with their tables, lamps, linens,
and tchotchkes that she just had to buy more."
"I can see it now: corporations using prison labor could
present themselves as socially responsible businesses
rehabilitating incarcerated women via telemarketing and
product assembly skills. Connie Convict, an unkempt, underfed
inmate who spends her day booking American Airlines reservations
and bagging Starbucks espresso beans, could emerge as a beauty
queen, with a little help from some benevolent cosmetics line:
"Maybe she found it behind bars... maybe it's Maybelline!"
Jennifer Pozner is such a profound media critic that someday
I think there should be a panel discussion on the corporate
media with her on one side and David Horowitz on the other.
He'd better bring friends though, like PJ O'Rourke, Christopher
Hitchens and Karl Rove. She'll kick his butt effortlessly.
And smile the whole time, I bet.
So Mya Cash graced the stage of the UWM union ballroom the
other night. And most of us didn't know she and Jennifer Pozner
were one and the same, huh? Neat.
I found out when I got home. She rocked.
I'll end with some things about her on the internet, and by
uploading a .wmv movie for you to watch from her Billionaires
For Bush And Gore days. I'll try and convert it to mpeg and mov
as well if I can for those of you who can't watch windows stuff.
Sonoma State has this to say:
With humor and sharp wit, Pozner deconstructs the hype and frenzy
of current dating and mating shows on Reality TV. She analyzes how
pop culture reinforces regressive gender stereotypes and proposes
that the quest for profits compromises entertainment.
Pozner is founder and director of Women In Media & News (WIMN),
a women's media monitoring, training and advocacy organization.
Formerly, she directed the Women's Desk for the national media
watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting). Her work
has appeared in Ms., Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Hartford Courant,
Arizona Republic, Salon.com.
 http://www.sonoma.edu/pubs/release/2004/2215879340.html
http://www.ciaspeakers.com/pdfs/pozner_Flyer.pdf
http://www.fair.org/extra/writers/pozner.html
________________________________________
movie is at:
http://flag.blackened.net/ati/video/jennifer.wmv
yep, Mya & I are one... here's another pic
09.03.2004 - 00:12
Hi there. Thanks for writing up my talk at Milwaukee's Heroines & Hellions conference. I'd love to know who it is who wrote the piece (I didn't notice a byline or email) so that I can keep you in the loop when I get my mailing list together.
Hey, would you mind putting up a real photo with the article, not just an old "Mya Cash, media mogul" photo? People who don't know the old persona might get a bit confused. You can find a photo at the Sonoma release or at the Contemporary Issues Agency site.
Meanwhile, here are some great links for more information:
bitchmagazine.com - check out the "How To Write a Protest Letter" piece I did for them several months back. Also, currently on the stands is Triumph of the Shill, Part I, the first installment of the article series mentioned above. In it, I discuss product placement, fake satire in Hollywood, and the commercialization of film and culture. Triumph of the Shill, Part II will be published in the upcoming issue of Bitch.
AlterNet.org - if you put Jennifer Pozner in the search engine you should get quite a bit of content on media criticism and women
And, hey - thanks for your enthusiasm... and for your suggestion of a Horowitz debate. I've debated O'Reilly (only once) and I can tell you, it's definitely not what I would call fun. Doable, important... but not fun.
Stay critical, skeptical and amused,
Jennifer Pozner
Director, Women In Media & News (WIMN)
 director_wimn@yahoo.com
Jennifer L. Pozner>
 e-mail:: director_wimn@yahoo.com
Here's a better pic
09.03.2004 - 08:23
There you go.
I didn't have a camera with me.
So I simply went looking for a foto on the net.
cheers,
marco
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