The Fate Of Print News Is Real

How long can you succeed while fighting the wrong battles ? On Tues March 17, 2009, one more big print newspaper goes down the drain. The Seattle Post Intelligencer Printed its last paper but has decided to go strictly Online Web News ONLY. Not a big deal right, if you read this, you may not be a vivid paper reader. For those that are, it is getting to be the mark of the end of print media. Now for the current paper in question, they are cutting staff and dropping investigative reporters and keeping all the editorial staff, Now what does that tell you about what kind of journalism you are going to have… […]

Capitalism and Democracy

I am reminded by recent events that Communism was never a threat to Democracy but it was a threat to Capitalism and Capitalism seems to have won the war in part. I say this as I look at recent world events (20 years) in China and former USSR republics, Central America and Africa. But it […]

More Free Speech For All… ?

Much to Much Money=Free Speech

I have always been very proud of our nation in many ways even though I criticize it as most of us do. Like it or not it was the best thing around. Please notice I did use the word “was”, as time will tell, it may not be now or […]

Oct-Troubling

Maybe we do need to legislate “Morality” The media often has a double play on events. They can be both the “Builder and The Wrecking Ball”. This is not the first time we have seen 6, 7 and 8 children being born at a time from fertility doctors. In the past, the media has served a public purpose when these quadruplets and above were of natural birth… […]

Money & Lies Everywhere

These are opposing forces that have a magnetic attraction for each other. There can be no “TRUST” without enforceable “RULES” I think the statements above are easily understood and can stand on their own very well without disagreement. First the Big Old Moot News Story On The Banks. History is repeating itself 100 years later, only the names have changed and one key player switched positions. Before you click the coming link, please know that Morgan Stanly has in our history, been the Savior of Wall Street more than a few times but was the key big player in banking investments in the Oil Futures Market that helped drive up the cost of energy worldwide, creating a recession and later its own demise of banking failure because of the futures it held in the oil market as the price collapsed… […]

Fire Fire

The Wild Fires in Australia sound very familiar to me I was a bit surprised to hear that they believe they caught an arsonist in the recent fires in Australia. I was expecting to hear an environmentalist claim more evidence of global warming. Good for them ! Well, this is what is said in every […]