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A paved road. Click image to expand.Some states probably overbuilt their roads systems USA Today was among the first to sound the alarm that the nation's paved roads were ripped up and turned to gravel in a Feb. 4 piece hedlined "Tight Times Put Gravel on the Road." Bloomberg BusinessWeek got its piece of the story in April with "In North Dakota, a Rebirth of Gravel Roads," and the Wall Street Journal contributed "Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement" on July 17.
"America is now on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere," wrote Krugman.
The next night, Rachel Maddow echoed Krugman on her MSNBC show, specifically citing the Journal story, calling gravelization a "wacky Luddite solution."
"We are literally unpaving the roads," Maddow exclaimed.
As long as she insists on being literal about it, Maddow must concede that the number of miles of road being unpaved is trivially low. By USA Today's count, 100 miles in Michigan, three miles in Tuscarora State Forest, Pa., and 11 miles in Hancock County, Ind., were unpaved over the last two years. Add to that number the 10 miles of roads in Stutsman County, N.D., that the BusinessWeek story reported were scheduled for shredding and the 100 miles of unpaving performed in South Dakota last year reported in the Wall Street Journal, and you've got just 224 miles of demoted road.
http://www.slate.com/id/2264109/A paved road. Click image to expand.Some states probably overbuilt their roads systems... more
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"Standard protocol seemed to be followed by all parties involved-- an ethical journalist, a veteran public servant and a media team--yet the final product angered the country's top leaders and led to the resignation of a four-star general. "The Runaway General" exposed serious tensions within the military and government. And future access to military and government officials may be severely limited.
Access to the White House is already limited, according to a number of journalists featured in an April article in Politico. Most of the White House reporters with whom Politico spoke wished to remain anonymous, but they told the political news site that the relationship with Obama and the media is “hostile” and “as contentious on a day-to-day basis as any between press and president in the past decade.” In a situation where many reporters are already unhappy with limited access to government officials, it isn’t surprising to think that the McChrystal incident could result in even less availability."
Read the full story here: http://www.ypnation.net/generally-speaking-why-mcchrystals-rolling-stone-gaffe-could-have-major-repercussions-journalists"Standard protocol seemed to be followed by all parties involved-- an ethical... more
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McCain says that it's "the media that are the real boobs," and "the media that [has] a problem with my body." I don't think this premise is correct! I think that the "real boobs" here are the rapacious dicks that populate the internet and sent her vicious messages on Twitter. They use a "medium," but they are not "the media." McCain, elsewhere, complains that CNN offered a "special segment on [her] twitphoto drama," but am I missing something here? So did The Daily Beast, authored by Meghan McCain. And I don't know... it seems like Meghan McCain is judging Meghan McCain pretty harshly, saying it's "not the smartest thing I have ever done" and that she'll have "to be more judicious" in the future.
It's all so confusing, because the person who has the firmest hand on the way "the media" is dispensing with this saga is the one casting herself as its victim. Over at Double X, Noreen Malone opines (http://www.doublex.com/section/news-politics/meghan-mccains-15-minutes), "The problem is that she's trying to have it both ways."
t used to be, "say whatever you like about me, just spell my name right." Now it's "say whatever you like about me, just be sure to maximize the search engine optimization."McCain says that it's "the media that are the real boobs," and... more
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A little skepticism is always good. Hell, sometimes a lot of skepticism is good. Meghan O'Hara helped produce such Michael Moore projects as "Sicko" and "Fahrenheit 9-11." Now, she's joined forces with Nick McKinney--late of "30 Days" and Sundance's "The Al Franken Show"--to create the IFC Media Project, a critical (and sometimes caustic) look at the state of journalism in America. I sat down with O'Hara to discuss the mission of the show, and the growing phenomenon of citizen journalism.A little skepticism is always good. Hell, sometimes a lot of skepticism is good.... more
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So I was Stumble!ing (yes it's a verb to me) and I came across this video on youtube.com named Fuck Corporate Media. OK I'm down with hearing some arguing. After watching the video I found it amusing how it's not just the corporate media (in this story) that is leaving out events and details of this protest. Everyone is going to have their own side of the story. This protest started off as a Presidential Visit but skewered into topics like Media Bashing, Gay Bashing, Violence, Anarchy, Police Brutality and etc...
Those old ladies had it right. If you stop the video at 15:41 you will notice the sign one of them is holding. It states, "Pres Bush - Give Us Back Our Civil Rights"
This all seems to be a retaliation of the protesters who were called Uncontrollably Violent Anarchist.
Please comment! I really want to hear other opinions. I'm ALL about changing the face of Mass Media but in this case it seems like a game of "Spy Vs Spy"So I was Stumble!ing (yes it's a verb to me) and I came across this video on... more
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This is a personal question from me to the rest of the Current community. I'm hoping that you'll pay it forward.
Knowing what you know regarding the conduct of the men in charge of our government right now, is just a little part of you afraid to speak out publicly?
Do you hesitate from bringing it up when given an opportunity?
Is there at least a little part of you that is mortally afraid of what your government is capable of doing right now?
I am.
If you are, vote yes.
And share your fears. Because the only way these bastards win is through our silence.
Stay vocal. Stay vigilant.This is a personal question from me to the rest of the Current community. I'm... more
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Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public's perception of reality.
Take the time to watch it from beginning to end and you'll never look at TV reporting the same again. Tell your friends about it. This extraordinary film released in the early 1990s is almost completely unknown. Hopefully, the Internet will change that.Artist Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish... more
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This kind of crap is how we got to this point, folks. Via Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com:
JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think the press corps dropped the ball at the beginning. When the lead-up to the war began, the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war that was presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings.
And my own experience at the White House was that, the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives -- and I was not at this network at the time -- but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president.
COOPER: You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?
YELLIN: Not in that exact -- they wouldn't say it in that way, but they would edit my pieces. They would push me in different directions. They would turn down stories that were more critical and try to put on pieces that were more positive, yes. That was my experience.
This kind of crap is how we got to this point, folks. Via Glenn Greenwald at... more
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In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott McClellan, would forever slay the single most ludicrous myth in our political culture: The "Liberal Media":
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"If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.
The collapse of the administration's rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. . . . In this case, the "liberal media" didn't live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served."
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Just consider how remarkable that is. George Bush's own Press Secretary criticizes the American media for being "too deferential" to the Government. He lays the blame for Bush's ability to propagandize the nation on the media's uncritical dissemination of the Republican administration's falsehoods. And most notably of all, McClellan actually uses cynical scare quotes when invoking the phrase which, in conventional political discourse, is deemed the most unassailable truth of all: The Liberal Media.In a minimally rational world, this extraordinary passage, from the new book by Scott... more
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Glenn Greenwald exposes Kathleen Parker's previously expressed racist sentiments towards Obama, and questions the Washington Post editor's judgement in inviting such a person to write a column essentially calling John Edwards and Barack Obama gay. From the original article:
"Well, at least they didn't kiss.
I was bracing myself for the lip lock Wednesday when John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama."
PS To those who may not have heard of Glenn Greenwald, I'll just say that if I could only read one blog it would definitely be his. I discovered Greenwald's first blog, "Unclaimed Territory" in December of 2005 when the NSA warrantless wiretapping scandal broke. No one has been a more effective explainer of constitutional law or more accurate and fierce in the field of media criticism.Glenn Greenwald exposes Kathleen Parker's previously expressed racist sentiments... more
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