Jonathan Bein writes:

I have not seen anything about this in your recent dissections and it seems
like another perfect example of it being okay to be a repressive regime, as
long as it’s your our repressive regime:
http://money.canoe.ca/News/Sectors/Media/2005/10/04/1248009-ap.html

AGING NEWSPAPER READERS

Bradley Laing writes:

Danny, as to why the average newspaper reader is 55 years old…

It is because television provides news or entertainment all day long, and newspapers provide only news, all day long. If you are an advertiser trying to sell a product, you know that someone might change the channel from the News to the Entertainment channel, and see your ad, no matter where you advertise, on the news or on entertainment.

If you are a newspaper, all you can guarantee is a local audience interested in news.

So let’s say you are a newspaper publisher. You go to an advertiser: Hey I can guarantee you everyone in my town interested in news, ages 15-75.

A TV guy walks in. Hey I can guarantee you everyone in town, and the other towns, interested in news or entertainment, ages 15-75.

LETTER TO AIR AMERICA’S RANDI RHODES

David Swanson shares his correspondence:

Dear Randi Rhodes,

You were talking today about our poll on impeachment, so Bob Fertik called in to speak with you. But you spent the whole conversation attacking the idea of impeachment, claiming that it couldn’t succeed and would therefore make any Democrats who tried it look stupid.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3528

Randi, Randi. Such fatalism! From YOU! Such misguided “pragmatism” and “strategic thinking.” Don’t you realize that people won’t vote the Dems a majority BEFORE the Dems stand for something?

This whole chorus of “We’ll try it once we have the majority,” is self-contradictory. You can’t GET the majority that way.

It’s also inconsistent, because Dems are introducing and fighting for some bills, just not others. Have any of the bills and resolutions demanding investigations of the war lies or the Plame outing been more likely to pass than impeachment? Do you think Conyers and Lee and Holt and company all look stupid now?

And this way of thinking is also at odds with the record. When you elect Democrats with this line of thinking, you get the sort of Democrats who still don’t do anything. You see things from New York, Randi. I see them from D.C., where people HAVE NO REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. And for how many years did a Democratic majority fail to do anything about that?

To be fair, Randi, you did offer another strategy: “praying to god” that the Dems win some elections. But do you think that’ll actually work?

Have you looked at the example of how the Republicans moved into the majority? Was it through self-censorship and fear or through aggressive futile attacks and getting a message to THEIR base, not OURS?

(If you answered “It was through stealing elections” that only shows that you’re on our side and we need you, Randi.)

You’re a wonderful voice, Randi, a hero and an example. Please don’t buy into the defeatism of the corrupted thinking we’re all fighting against. Please don’t tell the Democrats they have to compromise in order to win. We have the network news and the New York Times to do that already.

In Solidarity,
David Swanson

WIKICOMMENT

Brooks Berndt writes:

I read your article on the Wiki phenomenon. Very interesting. I recently came across a similar use of internet technology that involves collective writing and editing in a fascinating way. A nonprofit called Faith Voices for the Common Good has been doing this kind of thing. The religious bent and politics of the organization may or may not be to your liking, but I think you might find the technological details and collective process interesting. The best way to learn about this is to read the history of the nonprofit contained in a journal article:
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/journal_of_feminist_studies_in_religion/v021/21.1brock.html

The nonprofit’s website is:
http://www.faithvoices.org/about.html

CASSIDY ON THE COAST

The Pinch and Judy Show is gettin’ hot.

Or to quote Cary Grant: “Judy… Judy… Judy…”

Will Fitzy’s probe put the kabosh on Iran Invasion plans? Or give it a boost? Only “The Shadow” knows.

Michael Brady writes:

Your daily articles give so much to people like myself, I am sending to you a website that you might regrettably improve your already considerable understanding of what is being planned for us.

The countless programs are well planned and well delivered. So much so that I usually forget what is left of my politics. If I think of it, I wouldn’t agree with them — but I don’t think of it anymore.

www.radio4houston.org/takingaim/home/shows/audio.html

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IMPERATIVE FOR TODAY: ATONE!

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