Media Madness By James Bowman

"Let's face it, if the mothers ruled the world, there would be no goddamned wars in the first place," said Sally Field at the Emmy Awards on Sunday. Mixing up its categories of taboos, the New York Times calls "goddamned" (which it forbears to repeat) "a vulgarity" rather than a profanity, but it doesn't reflect on the vulgarity of the Hollywood-style self-righteousness, presumably because it's too much like its own. Let's face what, exactly? Her opinion? For how on earth can she possibly know what would or would not be the case if mothers ruled the world? If mothers ruled the world it wouldn't be the world anymore -- that's about all we can be sure of and therefore all that we have to "face." But she speaks as if her mere speculation were the most unarguable and ineluctable of realities. Well, there's a lot of it going around. I think of it as a form of media madness.

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