{"id":1466,"date":"2014-05-30T15:26:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T22:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:37:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T17:37:24","slug":"confessions-of-a-media-mafia-hitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/2014\/05\/30\/confessions-of-a-media-mafia-hitman\/","title":{"rendered":": : KOZ : :"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confessions of a Media Mafia Hitman\u2026<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

THE AMERICAN ENTROPY TRILOGY\u00a0 1900 – 2024<\/strong>
\nA Long Day’s Journey into Light: <\/span>A Cautionary Parable in III ACTS.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/span>From the Great Depression through the turbulent 60’s at Berkeley, the 2008 Great Recession to the 2024 national election, comes a raucous saga of corporate conspiracy, intrigue, greed and\u2026murder over three sequential novels:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

\nAMERICAN AMNESIA 1900 – 2000
\nAMERICAN ALGORITHM 2000 -2004
\nAMERICAN ANARCHY 2008 – 2024<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
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Michaelangelo Kozlov, Koz, a self-satisfied plutocrat and successful \u201cmedia hitman\u201d\u2014 for the Media Mafia, a contract assassin\u2026of character\u2014is livin\u2019 large, when his idyllic lifestyle is shattered by a putative attack by Islamic terrorists a month after 9\/11 provoking a painfully honest re-examination of his callow core values.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A cautionary, yet sometimes playful parable of the 6th Mass Extinction from Climate Change\u2026unless\u2026<\/span><\/div>\n
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Does the aging artist Mickey Kozlov, a once strident 60\u2019s counterculture activist have the courage, conviction and guile to again oppose, by any means necessary, the canons and ruthless plutocrats of the same mighty machina ex corporati that made him very rich?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Based on a true incident \u2014the horrific 1999 petroleum pipeline explosion in Bellingham, Washington that claimed three innocent, young unfinished lives and\u00a0<\/span>inflicted <\/span>mayhem on a pristine environment.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Certain liberties were taken with the facts, including causation and dates for literary and dramatic purposes.<\/span><\/div>\n
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With the exception of notable historical figures, all the characters are fictitious\u2013any resemblance to the bad guys, living or dead, is purely coincidental\u2026unless it ain\u2019t. The main protagonist Michaelangelo Kozlov bears more than a casual resemblance to the author\u2026insofar as the similitude and abundance of disturbing foibles and irritating eccentricities<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Confessions of a Media Mafia Hitman\u2026 THE AMERICAN ENTROPY TRILOGY\u00a0 1900 – 2024 A Long Day’s Journey into Light: A Cautionary Parable in III ACTS. From the Great Depression through the turbulent 60’s at Berkeley, the 2008 Great Recession to the 2024 national election, comes a raucous saga of corporate\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-algorithm","category-kozmick-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metamediacom.com\/mr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}