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Orchestrated Chaos – Contents

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Introduction: The Bad News Business

I. DEADLINE NEWS: WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY, DAN?

Deadline News: What’s the Frequency, Dan?
Rappin’ Through University
Choosing Up Sides
Please, Mr. President, Can We Have Some More?
Knowledge, Power and Green Oranges
Deadline News: Tonight on the Knowlton Nashional
The Elizabethan Cult of the Personality
Heavy Diversions
Sometimes a Very Good Idea
Deadline News: Welcome Aboard, Sherry

II. BEYOND COMMERCE AND DRY DIAPERS

The Burden of Leadership
The First Ever, last Ever, Annual POLlie Awards
Below the Law
Mission Implausible
One Mouse, But Not Bitter
Dog Hairs in the Caviar
Of the People, By the People, For the Pollsters
Matilda Say It True
Fact and Fiction in American Foreign Policy
Beyond Commerce and Dry Diapers

III. WHAT’S A LITTLE JUSTICE BETWEEN FRIENDS?

The Good Citizen Policy
What’s a Little Justice Between Friends?
Government Regulation – A Beginner’s Guide
The Somewhere Else Syndrome
MMA (Merciless Mercenary Attitudes)
Ottawa: Babb Alone
Conversations Overheard at Wingtips Golf and Country Club
REAL Princesses Don’t Slay Dragons
Storm Clouds Over Amerika
Sue Me, Sue You

IV. DEADLINE NEWS: SUPRENOVAE AND GRATUITOUS DISRESPECT…

Deadline News: Informed Sources and Outrage…
Parenting in the Nineties
Ending the Arguments
Deadline News: Economics and Exclusives…
Larry and Bud Make Pictures
Peace as a Last Resort
Loose Talk Around the Gene Pool
Hypocrisy is Blind
Caribou on Bay
Deadline News: Supernovae and Gratuitous Disrespect…

V. MR. AND MRS. FRUMP CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS

Mr. and Mrs. Frump Celebrate the Holidays
Marcos – The Movie!
The Schwartz Sports Report
Power Smoking
Mr. and Mrs. Frump Join a Club
A Very Public Life
Pretty Faces, Empty Heads
Codename: Raid
What Seems to be the Problem?
Mr. and Mrs. Frump Suffer From Déjà vu

VI. SCENE 11: DINNER FOR ONE

Scene 11: Dinner for One
The Wonderful World of Nuclear Radiation
Exploring Nature with Ranger Bill
Little Chickadee Lost
1987 Vanna Tease
How Do You Know When You’re Really Poor?
Scene 12: Rules of the Club
The Woman With Hair Bigger Than Her Head
Re-visions of Canada
Scene 13: Sing a Song of Ecocide

VII. REVEREND RIGHTEOUS CONFRONTS THE DISBELIEVERS

Reverend Righteous Confronts Fiscal Responsibility
The Arctic Circle and Bust!
DNSR: The Iran/Contras Investigation
A Slight Reality Problem
Reverend Righteous Confronts Political Reality
Giving TV News a Black Rock Eye
Joey’s Little Secret
Finance Minister Feelgood’s Patented Economic Tonic
Partying in the Nineties
Reverend Righteous Confronts the Disbelievers

VIII. THE PLACEBO EFFECT

Hither and Yon Economics
The Wages of Cynicism
The Politics of All Things Harmonious
Brain Salad Misery
Appropriating the Issue
Entertainment Right Now
An Oliver North Iran/Contras Hearing Fantasmagoria
The Ecstasy of Flight
Orchestrated Chaos
The Placebo Effect

IX. BRILLIANCE ON A BUDGET

Deadline News: Gallumphing Into History…
The Boothought Principle
Deadline News: A Clown Too Far…
The American Cold War Foreign Policy Algorithm
Deadline News: Rumours of Glory…
Brilliance on a Budget
Pollies Want a Cracker?