Wikileaks the new enemy of governments

“Could become as important a journalistic tool as the Freedom of Information Act.” – Time Magazine

WikiLeaks is an international non-profit media organization launched in 2006 that publishes confidential documents from anonymous sources and leaks. They has won a number of awards, including the 2008 Economist magazine New Media Award. In June 2009, WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange won Amnesty International’s UK Media Award for “Kenya: The Cry of Blood – Extra Judicial Killings and Disappearances”, In May 2010, the New York Daily News listed WikiLeaks first in a ranking of “websites that could totally change the news”.

In April 2010, WikiLeaks posted a video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by U.S. forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan not previously available for public review.On October 22, the group released almost 400,000 documents called The Iraq War Logs in coordination with major world media. Finally on November 28, Wikileaks released 251,287 confidential US diplomatic cables that have given unvarnished and sometimes embarrassing insights into the foreign policy of the United States and its allies.

Recently, Julian Assange said he and colleagues were taking steps to protect themselves after death threats following the publication of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables on their website. Washington is furious after the leak of the diplomatic cables. “The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with significant material from the U.S. and other countries to over 100,000 people in encrypted form.” ”If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically. Further, the Cable Gate archive is in the hands of multiple news organizations. History will win,” said Julian Assange.

WikiLeaks directed readers to web addresses in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Finland on Friday after two U.S. Internet providers ditched it in the space of two days. The Internet publisher directed users to www.wikileaks.ch, www.wikileaks.nl and finally www.wikileaks.fdn.fr  after the wikileaks.org site on which it had published classified U.S. government information vanished from view for about six hours. Now most of the website is host in France, and Paris tried to ban French servers from hosting Wikileaks. Eric Besson French minister of numeric economy said:”We can’t host websites described as criminal and banned by other countries for the same reason.” France is now  44th on Reporters Without Borders’ freedom of the press list, right after South Korea.

By definition WikiLeaks is an organization allowing the publication of confidential documents and assuring the secret of the identity of the source also called “whistleblowers.” Those people are the one that with courage denounce acts that they judge unacceptable. They are the real heroes who are taking risks in the name of freedom of the press. Wikileaks depends on them, however it doesn’t support them. For example, Bradley Manning the “whistleblower” who gave Wikileaks 90 000 documents on the war in Irak is facing 54 years in prison. Wikileaks is not doing anything about it, there is no support for Bradley Manning the true hero in the story. In my opinion, if Julian Assange and Wikileaks want to become a really force in the freedom of the press, they absolutely need to protect their sources and help them if they get in trouble.

Here a great interview of Julian Assange, creator of Wikileaks:

For more information click on the link: http://wikileaks.fdn.fr/

Thanksgiving and the danger of Black Friday

One of the great benefice of living in another country is to discover the culture of country you decided to live in. Every country has its own one, with its own traditions, customs, and celebrations. I am a French man living in the USA, therefore I had the chance of discovering with pleasure of differences between my own culture and the American culture.

When it comes to celebrations we have common ones like Christmas, New Year, or Eastern. However the USA have a very unique celebration in the name of Thanksgiving. Each year on the 4th Thursday of November, family gathers to celebrate what was traditionally a harvest festival. Nowadays, Thanksgiving has become  secular holiday, and it represents a time for people to get together and be thankful. Thanksgiving is probably currently is only celebration observed by 99 percent of Americans. Where other celebrations became very commercial such as Christmas became all about Santa Claus and gifts, or Eastern and chocolates, Thanksgiving managed to stay a time when people stay home and enjoy being together.

Unfortunately, it may not last for long due to a phenomenon called Black Friday. On the day after Thanksgiving, since most Americans are not working and stay with their family, retailers are offering huge discounts on their items. It is traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, many retailers open very early, often at midnight. What started has a good idea, big discounts for the opening of Christmas, is started to became a real danger for Thanksgiving. People are starting to quit on Thanksgiving gathering in order to get in line in front of Bestbuy, Target, or Walmart and get in first. First of all, people are going crazy over it and scenes of stampede or fight are becoming usual during that day. And second, Thanksgiving was the last non commercial celebration in the USA where people really took the time to be with their love ones. It is sad to see it disappearing year after year a little more because of consumerism.

Here an example of Black Friday:

Facebook’s “Gmail Killer”

Last Monday (November 15th) Facebook held a Special event in San Francisco, which was described  as a “special event is in advance of Mark Zuckerberg’s conversation on 11/16 at Web 2.0 Summit.” Facebook actually  unveiled a unified messaging system that allows users to communicate with each other across mediums like SMS, chat, email or Messages. The rumor was already going around about Facebook’s “Gmail killer,” and actually some people, looking at their icon on the invitation, noticed that it was the Inbox icon and not their chat icon, came to the speculation that the event was about Facebook’s new messaging system. Later that day,  Joel Seligstein, a Facebook engineer, published a post on Facebook’s blog describing the next step of the company.

This announcement sounds like a real threat for e-mail providers especially Google, the two companies have been at war for a little while now. Everything began with Google who blocked the importation of user’s data to Facebook if there wasn’t reciprocity. Then Facebook found  a new way to liberate Gmail’s users contact data. Google’s Response to Facebook technique said: “We’re disappointed that Facebook didn’t invest their time in making it possible for their users to get their contacts out of the social network. As passionate believers that people should be able to control the data they create, we will continue to allow our users to export their Google contacts.” Since that statement Facebook stayed very quiet until now. The new service will be introduced over the next few months by invitation. It will give users the chance to use an @facebook.com e-mail address as it integrates e-mail, SMS, chat and Facebook Messages into one “social inbox” accessible on smartphones and computers.

Even though Facebook’s new messaging system has been called the “Gmail Killer,” it is far from the reality. According to Seligstein there is a big different between a typical email provider like Gmail and Facebook’s service, he declared: ”To be clear, Messages is not e-mail…. There are no subject lines, no cc, no bcc, and you can send a message by hitting the enter key.” In addition unlike email providers who are used by everyone (uses Internet), Facebook targets with this new service teens and kids aka the next generation. A generation who either didn’t live or can’t remember life without the social network. Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear that this is the aim of their new service, saying kids find email “too slow and formal.”

Here a CBS clip with Mark Zuckerberg describing the new system:

A statement shared by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, which is an organization based in Washington, D.C. providing information on issues, attitudes and trends. Member Amanda Lenhart summarized the situation saying: “email isn’t used very much as a daily communication tool with friends, it is used, albeit less frequently, by most teens, and used mostly to talk to institutions, adults and others less reachable by text messaging, as well as when teens need to send longer and more complicated messages to a group. The data suggest that while email isn’t used heavily by teens, it certainly hasn’t disappeared, either.”

Behind all of those new possibilities, there is one crucial question how will we communicate in the future?

The only sure answer is that Facebook wants to be around, therefore they are doing their best to come up with the next big thing. The social network counting over 500 million needs to stay part of its users lives, therefore it has to provide them with something they need. Thus the new service has for goal to resolve some enduring complaints about Facebook’s messaging system, which was originally dreamed up for back-and-forth conversation like text messaging. In addition the social network hope that users will spend even more time on the social-networking site as it streamlines and aggregates communications, making Facebook an indispensable part of their life.  If they fail to do such a thing, the social network will certainly die progressively like other social networks, remember Myspace.

The engineers at Facebook are going even further in the future of our communication, Joel Seligstein said: ”Relatively soon, we’ll probably all stop using arbitrary 10-digit numbers and bizarre sequences of characters to contact each other. We will just select friends by name and be able to share with them instantly.” Food for thoughts for some of us, and certainly fears for the wireless phone providers.

Here the campaign video for Facebook Messages:

Here is the link to the full description of Facebook’s new messaging system:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130

Mysterious Missile Launch In Los Angeles Area

Last Monday night a KCBS news helicopter captured images images of  a mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast. The precise location of the missile was about 35 miles out to sea, west of L.A. and north of Catalina Island. Then the news station contacted the Navy and Air Force about the striking launch off the coast of Los Angeles, but they denied knowing anything about the launch.

The video of the mysterious missile has been showed to former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Ellsworth,  and also former Deputy Secretary of Defense who said:”It is a big missile… It’s not a tomahawk,” and then speculated:”it could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine … to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that,” since Obama is doing a Asian tour. However he urged American to wait for definitive answers to come from the military.

Here the news clip from News8:

A Navy spokesperson said there was no Navy activity reported in the area Monday evening. On Friday night, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, launched a Delta II rocket, carrying an Italian satellite into orbit, but a sergeant at the base told KFMB there had been no launches since then. The military, also, reported no rocket or missile launches, scheduled or accidental, at the time, and aviation officials said radar did not show any fast-moving, unidentified targets in the area.

This mystery created a wave of speculation and conspiracy theories on the Internet about an unexplained missile that even the government didn’t know about. You could hear theories about UFOs, secret missile launch,and even government testing of so-called toxic “chemtrails.” Even experts couldn’t agree, some said the trail had the markings of a missile or rocket, while others said it appeared to be nothing more than a condensation trail of an aircraft, distorted by the light near the horizon at the end of the day.

An example of the wave of speculation, this news clip where a journalist interviews a Russian expert:

On Wednesday Defense Department spokesman Col. Dave Lapan ended the speculations and declared: “There is no evidence to suggest that this is anything else other than a condensation trail from an aircraft.”

Also Missile and satellite launches are routine along the California coast. Many of these launches are invisible to the metropolitan area, shrouded by the layers of moist marine air and pollution around. Usually  launches on clear nights or at twilight would trigger numerous calls to media or authorities reporting unusual sky sightings from hundreds of miles away, and even from neighboring states. However last Monday night no calls about unusual sky sighting have been reported in the whole Los Angeles area. Therefore suggesting that the footage captured by the helicopter were not visible on the ground.But apparently this explanation as trouble to convinced a lot of people, who think there is more to the story than the government want to say.

My point is not to investigate the story and to find the “real” truth, but to talk about how fast (and negatively) people reacted to the event. First of all it is easy to understand that newscasts want to have more audience, thus they create stories where there are not. Then I have been very surprise how reactive people are to the news, the amount of speculations and conspiracy theories increased very fast in only 2 days. Last but definitively not least, I have been honestly scared by numbers of those theories, it is obvious that a lot of Americans don’t trust their government. I read articles about secret missile launch(fyi if you want it to be secret don’t do it that close to the coast of the 2nd biggest city in the US). But the most terrifying the theory about chemical contrails aka chemtrails, where clandestine branches of the government deliberately spray at high altitudes chemical or biological agents for a purpose undisclosed to the general public. So what the mainstream believe to be innocent contrails are in really secret weapons from secret agencies.

To be honest I don’t really know what to think about all of those theories, my only thought is either some people are very bored in their lives and have a great imagination, or we live in a hell of a world.

EF International School: The Scandal

Los Angeles is an amazing place to learn english while spending a great time, between the Southern California weather, the beaches along the pacific coast, Venice, Santa Monica and Malibu to name a few, and Hollywood it is very attractive for a lot of people. Thus Los Angeles area is populated by dozens of language schools, one of them is EF International School.

Prior to attending Santa Monica College, I was a student at EF International School in Redondo Beach, and even if I have mixed feelings about my experience I never witnessed/heard such dramatic event. ABC 7 reported the death of a 17-year-old Danish student: Mikkel Christian Andersen on October 8, and also the rape of a 20-year-old South Korean student last August. The link between those 2 tragic events is that both students were attending EF International School in Redondo Beach, and that those events occurred during “bus parties.”

For Mikkel Christian Andersen the tragedy happened on the 110 Freeway in South Los Angeles. The danish student, who arrived in Los Angeles 2 weeks earlier, was left behind after the bus made a stop on their way back to Redondo around 3 am. The teenager totally drunk, his blood level was 3 times the legal limit, decided to walk back home. His judgment obviously altered by alcohol, Mikkel tried to cross the 110 Freeway. After crossing the first part of the 110, he stood in the carpool lane and tried to cross the other side. It was then that a car struck him in the second lane on this other side, killing him instantly in the early morning of Oct. 8.

The death of Mikkel led to the arrest of Jeremy Touche a 22-year-old French student, also attending EF International School in Redondo Beach. Jeremy was the one who rented the party bus the night Mikkel died. He has been charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, furnishing or giving alcohol to minors, and selling alcohol without a license. But also the extra allegation that Jeremy provided the alcohol that Mikkel drank, resulting in his death. He could face a minimum of six months in jail.

Jeremy rented the bus for $550 for the night and according to other students, he charged his classmates about $35 each, making a large profit at the end, which is illegal for two reasons. First it would mean that Jeremy was running a business of serving alcohol without a license. Second and most important it would mean that Jeremy had a business which for an international student is strictly illegal.

Back in August, Redondo Beach police arrested Jeremy’s roommate, a 20-year-old Venezuelan student, also attending EF International School, Jember Alfonso Martelo-Oca. During the past 7 months both students lived together in different host families in Hermosa Beach and Torrance. Jember rented the bus the night the South Korean student was sexually assaulted. He was charged with misdemeanors including contributing to the delinquency of a minor, serving alcohol to a minor, serving alcohol without a license and conducting business in the city without a license. He pleaded guilty to serving alcohol without a license and was sentenced to three years’ probation and to perform 240 hours of community service. He also was ordered to complete a course with the state Alcoholic Beverage Control. He could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, if he doesn’t follow the decision.

Talking from my own experience I spend 9 months at EF, and every week I’ve seen at least 2 or 3 bus parties being organized. If you do the math, it is a lot of parties, a lot of alcohol and a lot of money. However I’ve never seen tragic events like those one, I only remember the case of an under age Italian girl being drunk who fell of the stairs and broke her leg. To put things into perspectives, the average age of EF‘s students is between 16 to 22, therefore bus parties are the only way most of them can access alcohol and party. It is especially true for students coming from countries where they are old enough to drink alcohol.

It is a very sad story for each of those students, because they all had the same goal by going to Los Angeles learning English and having fun. Now 1 student is dead, 1 got raped and 2 are considered as criminals, all of that because of alcohol and immaturity. After the tragic events it is the time when all of the actors try to put the blame on someone else. In those cases you have the school EF International School, the victims, the students who organized the bus parties and finally the rental company.

First of all the school, even though EF International spokeswoman Francy Ronayne said:”We have expelled students before for purchasing alcohol for minors, and we have done so again with the students who organized the October and August party buses.” They may have done it with those 2 students but for the rest they are well aware of the bus parties and let it happen. The reason for is that most students live in apartments in Avenue G in Redondo Beach, those building are also occupied by other people. Thus the school receives an enormous amount of complains from those neighbors who have problems with the kids being drunk around the buildings. Therefore having the kids partying in Hollywood (for those old enough to enter clubs) and bus parties for the rest, is the perfect solution for the school. Seeing how the school react today I found it really hypocritical.

Then there is also the responsibility of the victim, in Mikkel’s case no one forced him to drink that much alcohol, or even to drink at all; he was underage. The fact that he was largely intoxicated played a role in his decision to cross the whole 110 Freeway. Being young and probably immature is one thing, but alcohol can have dramatic consequences. Mikkel was 17, he pushed the limits a little too far and it cost him his life. Like every time there is a death people start realizing that things need to be change to prevent tragedies; hopefully in some ways good will come out of this tragedy.

The  classmates who organized the bus parties are also responsible. They were probably not thinking that something like that would ever happen, nonetheless it did. They probably wanted to be the cool ones who were throwing the bus parties for everyone to have fun, and also make some money; now they have been charged/sentenced  heavily. It is a tough situation for them too, because they have to face the consequences of being irresponsible and immature aka being young.

Finally the rental company, which is as hypocrite as the school, declaring that they didn’t do anything wrong. Of course on paper the company is clean, they rented a bus to a 22-year-old man that’s it. But in reality they knew exactly what was going on, proof of it the fact that the company was charging extra if someone got sick in the bus.

Once again money and alcohol are the reasons for dramatic events. In those times where we need a responsible for every tragedy, immature young adults are facing criminal charges. In my opinion they have to take responsibility for their actions, and face the criminal consequences. But I also believe EF International School has a great responsibility in those events and should be face consequences too. In a smaller proportion, so should do the rental company.

Here a link to ABC’s video: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7757527

Where is the Music Industry heading?

This is the big question: what is the future of music distribution, and the music industry in general?

“The war on music piracy is a failure.”

Who’s better than Sean Parker (Napster founder, Facebook partner, and Spotify investor) to talk about the music industry situation? With Napster Parker started revolutionizing the music industry by making the Internet the ultimate medium to obtain and share music. Parker stated that the music industry must recognize that the war on music piracy is a failure in order to move on. Now he wants to finish what he started with a new music download company, Spotify. The company has approximatively 10 million users in Europe, and more than half a million paying subscribers, but is still trying to appear on the US market.

“You get addicted to it.”

For him consumers are looking for “accessibility” and “convenience” when it comes to music, and according to Parker the answer could be Spotify. The service allows unlimited streaming of music through an application on your desktop.”You get addicted to it,” Parker said; coming from France, I have been able to use Spotify for a little while now, and I have to agree with him. It is addictive. You can have a library of music bigger than you would have never thought. Similar to Pandora Radio, which is an automated music radio stations service playing selections according to your taste; Spotify is making money with the advertisements on the application and the commercials popping up every 20 minutes. But also from users becoming subscribers to be able to put the music on other devices and/or to get rid of commercials, two formulas possible 4.99 € or 9.99 € for example in France.

“Spotify got you by the balls.”

Parker, who’s hoping that Spotify will launch in the US within the year, claims that “Spotify got you by the balls” with their concept. Even though you created a gigantic music library, you are only able to play it on your desktop. If you want to put it on your Ipod or other mp3 player, you need to buy the tracks or become a member of Spotify, and you have the music whenever. The problem for Spotify in the US is Steve Jobs and Apple’s pay-per-download on its own devices. Apple, which has sold more than 250 million iPods to date, doesn’t allow Spotify, and other services alike, to port songs to an iPod or iPhone. According to Parker: “If you want to operate a music service in the U.S. and you can’t port music to the iPod–and you believe the thesis of convenience and assessibility–you’re screwed.”

Naspter really revolutionized music and how we consume it. Today almost everyone owns a Ipod or another kind of mp3 player. Whether it’s on your phone or your gaming device, it became natural to listen to music all the time. In addition people got used to have all kinds of music, and be able to get it easily. The problem is that the music industry is run by records companies/multinationals who are loosing a lot of money. I believe the industry has to change dramatically in order to survive. First, records companies have to accept to make less money on every artist, because people are ok to give money to the artist not his producer. Second, artists have to rely more on the money they made from their concerts rather than the CDs they sold. Finally,   services like Spotify, who spread the music and let people discover unlimited artists without giving away for free the music, have to develop and create a new way to consume and approach music.

The Social Network – A**hole or Geek?

A few days ago, I went to see The Social Network. On paper the movie looked good with director David Fincher (Fight Club, Se7en, Zodiac, etc), screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, Charlie Wilson’s War, etc) and a casting with English actor Andrew Garfield (amazing in Boy A). However I had some questions about making a movie on the creation of Facebook.  Not knowing the whole story/contreversies behind the creation of it, I didn’t see the point of making the movie, I was thinking: “A documentary OK, but why did they need to do a movie?”

Let just say I have been blown away by the film for many reasons. The movie focuses on telling 1 story through 3 different ones, Mark Zuckerberg’s (creator), Eduardo Saverin’s (co-creator) and the Winklevoss twins’ (allegedly real creator of Facebook). This element makes the creation of Facebook stand out compare to the creation of phenomenon like Google, Microsoft, etc. Plus the personality of the Mark Zuckerberg, which is someone who has 10 different discussions at the same time with someone who has only one with him. Because of his personality, his genius and his attitude Mark Zuckerberg is by definition disconnected from 99% of people,which is paradoxical with the fact that he created a website uniting and bringing closer people. The dialogues are brilliant and describe perfectly the conflicts and paradox of this true story. Adding to that amazing performances from Jesse Eisenberg (Mark Zuckerberg), Andrew Garfield (Eduardo Saverin) and Justin Timberlake (Sean Parker aka creator of Napster).

RollingStone magazine describe the movie as “the movie of the year,” and also as the movie that “defines the decade.” I personally don’t know if The Social Network is the best picture of the year, but I agree with RollingStone saying that the movie defines the decade. Facebook brought the whole college experience on the web, accessible for everyone everywhere. It brings everything college kids are interested in on 1 platform, with Facebook they can know if someone is in a relationship or not, relived the party from last saturday and be in touch virtually with other students that they probably would have not talked to face to face. Facebook is a platform where people can see and be seen, which is the base of our consumerist society where fame and money seem to be more important than happiness and achievement.

For more info on the movie click on the link: http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/

Any publicity is good publicity?

Keith Richard Yackey, 31, Christopher Roy Wright, 32, and David Paul Hale, 30, the three members of the hip-hop band Imperial Stars blocked traffic for two hours on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood last Tuesday. They are facing multiple charges from disturbing the peace to conspiring to commit a crime. The three musicians have been scheduled to appear in court Nov. 3.

On Tuesday, around 10:30 a.m, the band’s van stopped in the middle of traffic lanes and the three members climbed on top of the vehicle to perform their song “Traffic Jam 101.” At the same time the driver ran away in another vehicle with the keys of the van. As a result of this publicity stunt, the traffic was backed all the way to the San Fernando Valley.

The band claims the performance had only one purpose raising awareness for homeless children. You could read on the van:”Over 1.5 million homeless children in the USA. What are we doing?” The band also claims all the proceeds from their newest single will go toward helping homeless kids.

Even if I am not going to doubt their engagement for the cause, I have a very hard time to believe that homeless children were the only reason the band did this stunt. The band didn’t have a big notoriety before this event and now they are all over the internet because of what they did. And I’m a perfect example, last week I didn’t know this guys, now I know their names, the name of the band and the tittle of one of their songs. So in my opinion their stunt didn’t raised my awareness on homeless children, but it definitively raised my knowledge of that band.

Here a link to KTLA video: http://www.ktla.com/videobeta/?watchId=c3a84073-8e5f-4c0c-a11d-e597dc1c255a

The Glee Controversy

Glee is a musical comedy-drama TV show aired on Fox. It has been created by Ryan Murphy (who also created Nip/Tuck), Brad Falchuk (who worked on Nip/Tuck) and Ian Brennan (who wrote the first draft of what would become Glee). The show became very fast a hit TV show with an average of 10 million viewers for the first season, 19 Emmy Awards nominations and 4 Golden Globe Awards nominations. Glee also scored big time by breaking the Beatles Hot 100 record, the Glee cast have 75 Billboard Hot 100 chart entries, thus surpassing the Beatles‘ 71 Hot 100 titles.

Therefore where can a controversy come from in a successful show like Glee? Well the cause is the cover of the November issue of the magazine GQ did by three of the cast: Dianna Agron (Quinn), Cory Monteith (Finn) and Lea Michele (Rachel).

Even though the creators of the show aimed to have a family show appealing to adults and children by creating stories for the high school students and their professors, the majority of their audience is composed by kids. With highly sexualized and also sexist photos parents groups and then the Parents Television Council complained about the choice made by the actors.

Taking out of context those photos are not very interesting I have to admit, except of being slightly sexist with one smiling guy fully clothed surrounded by two beautiful girls in suggestive poses wearing a minimum amount of clothes. The problem starts with the fact that those actors/singers are portraying high school students. Even though the three of them are between 24 and 28, they are portraying 16-17 years old kids, and of course it would be unacceptable to see a teenager doing those type of photos (remember Miley Cirus’ Vanity Fair photos scandal).

As I said in my last post “any publicity is good publicity,” in this case good publicity for GQ, Glee and the Parent Television Council, but primarily for the three actors. They are in their mid-twenties and play high school kids, it is very easy to be stuck in those types of character for a an actor. Therefore it is understandable that doing a very provocative cover is a good way to be noticed and be associated with something else.

History of television has showed us it is very difficult for actors to be taken seriously after being part of a very successful TV show. And it is no surprise that in those photos Lea Michele who plays the “geekier” character between those three actors, is also the one having the most controversial and sexual pose/attitude in the photos.

I guess shocking and being controversial are the only solutions celebrities have today to make sure they are going to be noticed or remembered. It is a pretty sad conclusion to have but even if I don’t agree with the technique I am contributing to it with my post. It is a catch 22! However I do believe in the importance of talking about it in order to awaken the awareness.

Here is the trailers for the season both season of Glee:

Season 1 trailer:

Season 2 trailer: