Governor Locke selected for Secretary of Commerce Baltimore Sun Tribune
Previously Sims selected Deputy Secretary of HUD
Northwest Progressive Institute
Not to mention: Seattle Police Chief Kerlikowske for Drug Czar
Speaking of Housing:
Housing Price Decline Accelerates
by Dean Baker Center for Economic and Policy Research
and Selections:E-Voting Security Fixes...
by John Turner ARS Technica
and other Similarities:
San Francisco Chronicle May Shut Down
by: Robert MacMillan and Janet Kornblum, Reuters
Seattle Post-Intelligencer to go Web only…or be shut down by Classified Intelligence?
And President Obama Getting Warmer by Robert Scheer Truthdig (Un-State of the Union)
Or Cooler? Freeing Up Resources...for More War by: Norman Solomon, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Or Unbounded? Beyond Scarcity: Reinventing Wealth in a Progressive World
by: Joe Brewer, t r u t h o u t | Perspective *
[This sampling is not fully read yet (nfry) but forms a web of sorts with orginal sources in italics for the prior link. ]
* The pieces from Cognitive Policy Works .[Kerbel/Brewer]. in Previous Post of sorts have been read and are recommended as bold updated reflects [also .Lakoff. ].
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Incompetent Boobs Exposed (02-02-04)
Is it any wonder the media focused on the Dean scream more than answers to real questions? And what about the claim the market place should operate as Adam Smith said in Wealth of Nations, an "invisible hand"?
Free speech is out the window if not only buying airtime is required, but now even prohibited as CBS refused moveon.org’s "Child’s Pay" Super Bowl ad, exposing the national debt being passed on to our children. It would be one thing if consistently done, but this calls into question CBS’s professional credibility, not to mention right to airwaves.
Now with the investigation by the FCC into the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake promotional stunt, what does this say, about the market place being the place to determine what is free not to mention visible?
On the other slightly more visible hand, maybe CBS deserves kudos for one, getting more free coverage for the ad on other networks with their rejection of the ad based on their refusal to do advocacy ads. And for two, being so incompetent in their screening of their entertainment and more than suggestive ad campaigns which exposed the hypocrisy of trying to filter or not advocate for causes.
With the uncertainty of what was intended and what was presented the viewers, the voter should keep in mind that they are the important filter that sorts the questions of elect-ability. Is it too much to ask that "wardrobe malfunction" be connected with the "emperor’s new clothes" or budget and intelligence failures?
Is it any wonder the media focused on the Dean scream more than answers to real questions? And what about the claim the market place should operate as Adam Smith said in Wealth of Nations, an "invisible hand"?
Free speech is out the window if not only buying airtime is required, but now even prohibited as CBS refused moveon.org’s "Child’s Pay" Super Bowl ad, exposing the national debt being passed on to our children. It would be one thing if consistently done, but this calls into question CBS’s professional credibility, not to mention right to airwaves.
Now with the investigation by the FCC into the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake promotional stunt, what does this say, about the market place being the place to determine what is free not to mention visible?
On the other slightly more visible hand, maybe CBS deserves kudos for one, getting more free coverage for the ad on other networks with their rejection of the ad based on their refusal to do advocacy ads. And for two, being so incompetent in their screening of their entertainment and more than suggestive ad campaigns which exposed the hypocrisy of trying to filter or not advocate for causes.
With the uncertainty of what was intended and what was presented the viewers, the voter should keep in mind that they are the important filter that sorts the questions of elect-ability. Is it too much to ask that "wardrobe malfunction" be connected with the "emperor’s new clothes" or budget and intelligence failures?
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