The media learned a new word this week which they are using incessantly:
Pandemic: A pandemic (from Greek παν pan all + δήμος demos people) is an epidemic of infectious disease that spreads through populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide. You know what else is pandemic and spreads across a Continent or even worldwide? A entrainment-based media with a gossipy style that blows news stories totally out of proportion, causes widespread panic for soundbites which they repeat incessantly and for ratings to show advertisers.There remains the fact that newspapers and TV/Radio media are reluctant to look beyond the advertising revenue model.
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Posted in 200, Politics, tagged Committe to Protect Journalists (CPJ), free press, Iran, journalists, Kadafi, Muslim, news organizations, Obama, paper-tiger, Pope Benedict XVI Islam controversy, Roxana Saberi, Tripoli bombing 1986 on April 19, 2009 | Comments Off
The jailing of Saberi clearly shows Iran’s contempt for women, the United States and the world courts. Saberi is innocent.
President Barack Obama has said he wants to engage Iran in talks on its nuclear program and other issues — a departure from the tough talk of the Bush administration. Iran has been mostly lukewarm to the idea, but on Thursday Iran’s hard-line president gave the clearest signal yet that the Islamic Republic was also willing to start a new relationship with Washington and that’s where Saberi’s arrest and conviction come in. Saberi is a political pawn, plain and simple.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Branch Davidians, CNN, Dirty Laundry, Don Henley, Guyanna, Heavens Gate, Janet Reno, Jim Jones, Jonestown massacre, journalists, Media, People's Temple, Religion, Waco Texas on November 14, 2008 | Comments Off
So why, after 30-years, when American government failed to learn their lesson at Jonestown is CNN regurgitating the horrible tragedy?
As a young journalist I learned quickly that, “If it bleeds- it leads.” Yet, we exercised restraint in what we reported and more importantly how we reported it. Today’s young infotainment twenty-something journalists under pressure for ratings and looking to build careers, do not labor under such restraints or compassion.
When authorities began looking into allegations that Jones was engaged in a wide-ranging criminal enterprise which included welfare fraud, election fraud, child abuse, and extortion, instead of the FBI detaining him, the government hiccuped allowing Jones to flee to French Guyanna, a Banana-Republic that had no extradition with the U.S. at the time.
CNN and the networks do not care about your pain.
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Posted in Entertainment, tagged cancer, Catfish Muse, dinosaurs, Entertainment, ER, journalists, Jurassic Park, Kokopelli's, Michael Crichton, Studs Terkel, The Rule Of Three, Tony Hillerman, writers, writing on November 6, 2008 | Comments Off
Maybe God, up there in his heaven, feels a void or has need of three great talents in the same career field at the same time so he takes them all at once. Maybe it’s just the Wiccan Rule of Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park), creator of ER and other TV series, died unexpectedly in Los Angeles November 4, 2008 after a courageous and private battle against cancer.
Three- whatever energy a person puts out into the world, be it positive or negative, will be returned to that person three times or conversely, when that energy is taken out of this world- it is taken from us three times.
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