I’m reading Michael Hastings’ The Operator: The Wild and Terrifying Story of America’s War in Afghanistan. He reports that during the Iraq War “the Pentagon had launched a searching, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul and reshape its media strategy… The Pentagon had about twenty-seven thousand people working on public relations, spending $4.7 billion in a single year.”
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Wag the Dog, Part II
Posted on Author oly mike
Senator Fraser, Representative Hunt and Representative Reykdal all spoke on January 3rd about the “big achievement” of the recent Special Session that was able to cut 480 million dollars to reduce the budget deficit, about 25% of the amount that it is assumed will need to be cut. There was some sense of dread about […]
Fight Like Crazy: Response to State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson's plea for fiscal sanity
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State Representative Mary Lou Dickerson has written a timely and eloquent post on the Slog: I am Angry. She says that the state budget cuts will make life miserable for many vulnerable people. She describes how the voters repeatedly vote for costly initiatives (for example, to decrease class sizes and raise teacher salaries) but then […]
Google should drop Fox News
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Fox News often appears on http://news.google.com, though Fox News continue to publish climate denial propaganda (I saw such an article on it the other day.) Shouldn’t google stop including Fox News articles? Fox News is not a legitimate news source. What I’m suggesting isn’t censorship; it’s maintaining high quality. Google wouldn’t include links Holocaust-denial websites, […]