As a person who has had to spend a fair amount of time writing technical reports in my life, the effort of viewpoint blogging has been a new stretch. I’m used to having to present facts, or evaluations as part of my writing, and not offer my personal thoughts. In the world of blogging, just like everywhere in the media these days, facts and even evaluations are not readily available or must be researched, themselves. A web search of keywords, as we all know, can reveal hundreds of thousands of hits. However, if we spend the time winnowing through them, we often discover the hits spring from a few recycled sources. We spend so much time looking, it’s disturbing to find expectations don’t match the message. (more…)
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Familiar and Sounds Right
Posted in Politics, tagged 18 Million Voices, Clinton, DNC Convention, DNC Platform Ideas, Election, Human Rights, NARAL, Voting Reform, Women's Rights on August 9, 2008| Leave a Comment »
If You Want to be Outraged, Read This!
Posted in Politics, tagged Big Media, Black Agenda, Digital TV, Election Reporting, Federal Elections Commission, just say no deal, Minority Rights, PUMA PAC, The Denver Group, Women's Rights on July 30, 2008| Leave a Comment »
The Black Agenda Report has produced a wonderful synopsis of events regarding the doling out of digital TV channels to big media, thereby leaving out everyone else. Is there any hope the next election season will be better? What are we going to do about this?
Big Media Steals 5,100 Digital TV Channels
Wednesday, 30 July 2008
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Acting as agents of the broadcasting industry, Congress awarded the already filthy rich a digital TV bonanza valued at $80 billion.”
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=722&Itemid=1
My Kind of Guy.
Posted in Politics, tagged brandenburg, Clinton, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Obama, puma, seneca, The Denver Group, Women's Rights on July 21, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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Of Vocabulary and the Fourth
Filed under: Diversity, Politics, Sense of place — Ed Quillen at 11:34 am on Saturday, July 5, 2008
[Thus it seems odd that we often read of patriots and patriotism, but seldom see mat riots and matriotism — they ought to be pretty much the same thing. On the other hand, if we’re trying to avoid sexism, matriot is no improvement on patriot.]
UPDATED LINK: http://www.hcn.org/blogs/goat/of-vocabulary-and-the-fourth?
When I see these ruminations, plucked from the GOAT’S hinterlands, I am immediately plunged back into some of the philosophical swing stage discussions in which I, and my coworkers engaged. Life isn’t always fair; versus, if it’s not right, fix it.
What then, to make of the fact that the 160th anniversary of the Seneca Falls convention passed with relatively little fanfare? (If you need a refresher check this, and this out.)
In a web search yesterday of “seneca falls” 160 anniversary, I found just 4,130 results. This is a sad commentary when, “hillary sleaze” will get you 3,650, and “hillary liar”, will get you another 3,690 hits.
10 years ago Hillary Clinton, as First Lady, gave a speech commemorating the 150th anniversary. So you see, the gravitas of Senator Clinton is now synonymous with the date.
Remarks by the First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
150th Anniversary of the First Women’s Rights Convention
Seneca Falls, New York
July 16, 1998
http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/generalspeeches/1998/19980804-3206.html
It makes perfect sense that Senator Obama chose this week to fly away on his much anticipated but delayed international trip. How lovely it would have been to overwrite history at the Brandenburg Gate. Alas, the Germans wouldn’t allow it.
Frederick Douglass would not be amused. He would have an idea on how to fix it.
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