[Translate] What do Warren Buffett, Zennie Abraham, Jeff Cutler, have in common? All were featured on the Tonya Hall Radio Show on Friday, May 25th. On Friday, Warren Buffett wrote a letter stating that Berkshire Hathaway intended to add more newspapers to its collection. This mainly because Buffett loves newspapers and reads five of them a day. That news formed a great conversation you can listen to now here: http://www.radioconetwork.com/rss/THS/052512_THS.mp3 ...
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[Translate] As associate producer on the new documentary, #WhileWeWatch, from Director Kevin Breslin and 8com, I have had an opportunity to dive, in a face-to-the-pavement sort of way, into the new wave of citizen media. Livestreaming, blogs, free press, immediate video uploads to youtube minutes after it is filmed. Watching arrests that seem completely unwarranted from the angel of the viewer. Spending long, coffee driven nights glued to the screen watching the police raid Oakland, Zuccotti Park and various #OccupyWallSt protests...
[Translate] You’ve probably seen recent stories that over 40% of Republicans — or an even higher fraction of Tea Partiers — think the current President wasn’t born in this country. You may also have heard Rush Limbaugh talking about what the people surveyed think in dramatic (or even bombastic) terms. It’s spin. Here’s the thing: No matter if you’re listening to Limbaugh, watching cable TV, or reading about it in Salon or your favorite blog-site, the surveys only tell you what people say, not what...
[Translate] To be a true patriot, a pro-republic American, is to recognize the role of civic virtue, of participation in the public affairs of the community, and to be among the men and women of whom future generations of Americans will say, “They were worthy of their city and their nation.” Gary Hart, in a recent Op-Ed, said: “No single step would revitalize our fearful national spirit than a new era of civic republicanism. The single best vehicle to achieve this goal is the proposed Serve America Act sponsored...
[Translate] Abortion is a proven “wedge” issue, in the finest tradition of Karl Rove’s masterful divisive politics, and it’s arguably being used that way again right now in the health-care insurance reform debate. The mainstream media is commercial, so they’re far from immune from the effects of the money being spent to spin, shape, frame, and control this debate. Most of us, frankly, have “good enough” insurance, and we all get to make the choice to keep our current system. In fact, of the...
