News Outlook Your Hometown Newspaper November 28, 2013 - 7
By Kymberlee Mar-
low
OK, so I write this ar-
ticle just after MTV'S
Music Awards. And
there hasn't been much
talk of anything besides
Miley Cyrus's controver-
sial performance. People
couldn't believe that
former Disney darling
Hannah Montana got up
there and got as raunchy
as she did.
The backlash hit this
country like a tsunami.
Lots of people have
threatened to protest
MTV. Lots of people say
she's a performer that's
trying to prove a point
and trying to shed her
good girl image.
Well congrats Miley,
you sure showed them.
Listen, my twenties was
such a confusing and
carefree point in my
life. It was chalked full
of mistakes, fun, lots of
questionable outfits, and
behavior. So I personally
cannot judge.
I wouldn't let any child
of mine watch it, though,
I'll tell you that. I saw a
mother on CNN the other
nightwho was outraged.
She said she was a bad
example for tweens and
teens. She said the only
reason her kids wanted
to watch it was for one of
the boy bands that was
supposed to be on it. The
guy doing the interview
posed a great question.
He asked, Why would
your kids be watching
an awards show that is
notorious for outrageous
behavior? And besides
didn't that show air at 10
p.m? What was your kids
doing up watching t.v on
a school night?
I thought, touch6. He
told her. Because isn't
this how the game of
fame works. Somebody
has to go for shock val-
ue to get noticed. The
exposure then equals
ticket sales and album or
movie sales. The more
outrageous you are, the
more people talk about
you. So Miley scored in
that sense.
It's a shrewd world
where people are re-
warded for bad behavior.
However, we have the
choice of watching or
listening or tuning them
Madonna was my fa-
vorite singer when I
was nine. I sang her
songs word for word.
Songs like Material Girl
and Like a Virgin. And
now that I know what
the words mean, I can't
believe I got away with
that.
We all know Madonna
was a pretty sorry role
model for young girls.
She was a pretty power-
ful woman in the indus-
try. But wow, she was
very racy. But for her it
worked.
But for some reason
people should just ac-
cept that little Hannah
Montana has grown up.
I think when you have
all the pressure of be-
ing perfect and clean-
cut, you eventually rebel
against it. And we all
know how that works. I
out. People act like they say just, let it be what it
are shocked. I'm not. I is. It's entertainment for
know there is one per- a mature audience, not a
former every year on national crisis. I swear,
the show that goes be- with the shape this
yond everyone else. Mi: country is in, and that's
ley Cyrus definitely won the biggest topic on the
that title this year. news at the time.
It's this simple if So in the scheme of
you don't like it, don't things we have a lot more
surround yourself with to worry about. And quit
it or tune it out. And I putting celebrities on a
personally don't recom- pedestal. We are feeding
mend letting kids go to too much into this cir-
concerts and watching cus. But we can control
certain things. I think who and what we watch.
that's why today's youth And more importantly,
is growing up so fast and sometimes who doesn't?
dressing way to risqu6
for their age.
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A Meeting in Salt Lake City and Why You Should Care
This week, a meeting of The US position in the It is estimated that if the
representatives of Pacific TPP negotiations is that fairy tale Snow White had
Rim nations is set to occur copyrights should last the been copyrighted under
at the Grand America Ho- author's life p!us 95 years! these proposed regula-
tel in Salt Lake, Utah from
November 19th through
the 24th. The meeting
is to hammer out the se-
cret trade agreement be-
tween the US and other
Pacific nations called the
TransPacific Partnership
(http://upr.org/post/
trans-pacific-par tnership-
draws-criticism-secrecy-
prior-meeting-salt-lake).
I have written about my
concerns over the TPP in
an earlier article to this pa-
per. Briefly, my concerns
are: the lack of transparen-
cy in the negotiations, the
i push for a fast track approv-
al through Congress, and
the all but certain possibil-
ity that this treaty would be
an end run around legisla-
tion that would not pass a
vote by our elected repre-
sentatives-let alone, the
will of the people. Nothing
of what I wrote earlier do
I now wish to retract. If
anything, my concern has
grown larger.
On Wednesday of last
week, Wikileaks founder,
Julian Assange obtained
and released a secret draft
copy of a single chap-
ter of the proposed TPP
(https://wikileaks.org/
tpp/pressrelease.html).
The chapter is about intel-
lectual property rights. In
this chapter alone, there
is enough information to
raise the hackles of any
red-blooded American.
According to the leaked
document, our patent and
intellectual property laws
are to be rewritten (extra-
legislatively). The revi-
sions to our existing law
would extend monopoly-
protecting patents to surgi-
cal procedures, life forms
Wouldi:le en the term
of patents and copyrights.
In the case of patented tions, Walt Disney would
pharmaceuticals, generics not have been able to
would take much longer make his animated version
to enter the market place of Snow White, until 1956.
because of redefinition Thus, under the TPP, not
of what is patentable. For only will the free exchange
example: If a depression of ideas be made difficult,
medicine is patented for 20 but innovation and creativ-
years (the current term) ity will be discouraged.
and the medication is sub- _It is critical that
sequenfly found to help we become involved in
With weightloss, according this debate. A treaty, once
t be leaked draft (page signed on to, cannot be
29, Article QQ.E.1. a) the revoked. It is permanent.
same medication could Therefore, it is all the more
be re-patented for the sec- important that pressure be
ondary use-whether or applied to Congress to pre-
not it is actually effective vent our representatives
in the secondary use. Of from voting on the TPP in
course, this revision will a fast track vote, in which
result in major profits there is no debate. We
to Big Pharma, as many only have the draft of one
drugs do have multiple chapter, leaked to the pub-
uses, and the potential for lic. If the rest of the TPP
holding on to patents could were public, there would
be extended endlessly. For be such outrage that it
we peasants, this will lead would almost surely put
to increased medical costs the TPP on the ash heap of
and decreased access to af- time. It is not by accident
fordable medicines, that Congress has been ex-
Another alarming aspect chded from the meetings
of the TPP is what it may where the TPP is being
do to free speech over the hammered out, and that,
internet. SOPA, or the with the exception of the
Stop Online Piracy Act was US Trade Representative,
defeated in Congress this these meetings are being
year over First Amend- held primarily with execu-
ment concerns. Yet, the fives of big, multinational
language of SOPA now coi'porations. It is also no
finds its way into the TPP accident that after the Bos-
(http://www.extremetech. ton tea party, our founders
corn/extreme/171223- put the regulation of trade
sopa-rides-again-usas-se- in the hands of Congress.
cret-tpp-treaty)! The TPP To put trade in the hands
contains provisions that of unelected, multination-
would make it extremely al, regulators is not only
difficult for internet us- against the ideals of our
ers to share files, and that founders, it risks a bloody
would put ISP providers in revolution.
the role of policing internet For more information
tme out of fear of copyright on this issue, and to get
infringement(http://www, involved, please go to:
businessspectator.com, http://www.citizen.org/
au/news/2013/ll/14). TPP
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material could be protect'- Granny Sue
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