Showing posts with label Global. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Global. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Global Media - Gee Whiz, Something is Terribly Amiss

In many regards it seems sometimes the media mettles too much into US politics. Often, they end up favoring a certain politician over another, and more often than not, it just happens to be the one which is spending the most money on advertising with that newspaper, their online version, or buying ads for the newspaper's website - convenient I'd say? Okay so, no revelation there, and as we grow older and watch the repeats of past history go around in circles every decade it tends to jade us and make us a tad bit cynical - but hey, that's politics and it's a messy business, as has been said.

Still, we do rely on our media to keep the politicians honest, and generally they love to stir up controversy which makes it a double-edged sword too. Freedom of the press therefore helps promote freedom and liberty, so that's a good thing, as long as those things I mentioned above don't get too far out of hand. Let's talk about this for a moment shall we?

The New York Times had an interesting article on April 4, 2012 titled; "In China Press, Best Coverage Cash Can Buy," by David Barboza which stated;

"China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news, but willing to print flattering news about businesses; if the price is right. Want a profile of your chief executive to appear in the Chinese version of Esquire? That will be about $20,000 a page, or get on a news program by state-run China Central Television? Pay $4,000 a minute, says a network consultant who arranges such appearances. A flattering piece in Workers' Daily, the Communist Party's propaganda paper $1 per Chinese character."

That same day there was another reminded of the cellular telephone scandal in the UK from one of their major newspapers. Couple that without our own challenges here at home and how our media seems to have become our fourth branch of government, often more powerful than the other three as it dictates policy and legislates from the pages. Where does all this go from here? Well, if we let it, that entire train could roll out of the high-speed station and leave us all behind, so, I'd say, let's not go there.

Still, how can we stop such things when the media has so much power, and the power brokers find ways to buy their way to political propaganda? That's a real catch-22 my friends, and with newspapers in the US hurting as bad as they are, they'd be more likely to take the money and confirm a little "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine," at the expense of our nation's future, and our future liberty and freedom. Beware the industrial media complex. See my point? Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on 2012 Global Politics. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/


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Saturday, May 5, 2012

How Can Anyone Trust the Global Media?

There was an interesting piece not long ago how our society was losing trust - trust in what you ask? Well, trust in everything; religion, government, education, corporations, money, future economy, Internet, and news media. No, you probably aren't surprised, but I'd like to take this topic a bit deeper, and focus on only one point of contention, the global media, that's right; our news. Okay so, let's talk shall we?

The Columbia Business Journal had an interesting story recently published on April 23, 2012 titled; "Loneliness at the Foreign 'Bureau', News organizations exaggerate the size of their overseas newsrooms," by Justin D. Martin. The article stated for example that;

"The Washington Post has 16 foreign "bureaus" and 12 of them consist of just a single reporter, according to the newspaper's website. The four remaining bureaus all consist of two journalists. Is the Post using the word bureau a bit loosely? One Post reporter, Sudarsan Raghavan in Nairobi, is listed as the paper's "bureau chief in Africa." Raghavan is the chief of a bureau of one in Kenya - for the continent of Africa."

This revelation perhaps is not too surprising due to the massive cuts in the sector, however, if we can't trust the global media in this way then we cannot trust anything at all in the pages of these papers or online. Further, a single reporter/photographer/interviewer/writer/editor/scheduler/you name it, simply isn't sufficient to cover the main events in news in any town over 300,000 much less a large city of a million plus or 10 million, heck you can't even get across town in a half a day. There isn't enough time to verify either. It's a total misrepresentation.

Without trust in the media whether it be online media, TV, radio, or print media then all the news is in doubt. If information is universal and free, but it is also bogus in every regard, then people cannot use it to make valid decisions in the world, therefore, they'd be better off without it, and then well, we are back to square one, and freedom of the press hardly matters, because what they are doing with it isn't keeping us free, or news to begin with.

As the coordinator for a think tank which happens to operate online, I feel as if we've been hijacked by nonsensical mindless social media, global propaganda, educational brainwashing, and thus, we've lost control, there is no trust anymore. This can only lead to chaos down the road, and I am not talking about the Arab Perennial demonstrations, I am talking about the entire globe. This isn't working. Indeed, this one minor issue of "bureaus" cited by the purveyors of global media is only one of hundreds of problems we have, it's merely the tip of the ice berg. Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Political Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/


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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Global Media - Gee Whiz, Something is Terribly Amiss

In many regards it seems sometimes the media mettles too much into US politics. Often, they end up favoring a certain politician over another, and more often than not, it just happens to be the one which is spending the most money on advertising with that newspaper, their online version, or buying ads for the newspaper's website - convenient I'd say? Okay so, no revelation there, and as we grow older and watch the repeats of past history go around in circles every decade it tends to jade us and make us a tad bit cynical - but hey, that's politics and it's a messy business, as has been said.

Still, we do rely on our media to keep the politicians honest, and generally they love to stir up controversy which makes it a double-edged sword too. Freedom of the press therefore helps promote freedom and liberty, so that's a good thing, as long as those things I mentioned above don't get too far out of hand. Let's talk about this for a moment shall we?

The New York Times had an interesting article on April 4, 2012 titled; "In China Press, Best Coverage Cash Can Buy," by David Barboza which stated;

"China is notorious for censoring politically delicate news, but willing to print flattering news about businesses; if the price is right. Want a profile of your chief executive to appear in the Chinese version of Esquire? That will be about $20,000 a page, or get on a news program by state-run China Central Television? Pay $4,000 a minute, says a network consultant who arranges such appearances. A flattering piece in Workers' Daily, the Communist Party's propaganda paper $1 per Chinese character."

That same day there was another reminded of the cellular telephone scandal in the UK from one of their major newspapers. Couple that without our own challenges here at home and how our media seems to have become our fourth branch of government, often more powerful than the other three as it dictates policy and legislates from the pages. Where does all this go from here? Well, if we let it, that entire train could roll out of the high-speed station and leave us all behind, so, I'd say, let's not go there.

Still, how can we stop such things when the media has so much power, and the power brokers find ways to buy their way to political propaganda? That's a real catch-22 my friends, and with newspapers in the US hurting as bad as they are, they'd be more likely to take the money and confirm a little "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine," at the expense of our nation's future, and our future liberty and freedom. Beware the industrial media complex. See my point? Please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on 2012 Global Politics. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/


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The Ocean Is Rising and Making Land Inhabitable Due to Global Warming, The Alarmist Claimed

Interestingly enough, the city I live in has been sinking down between eight and 12 inches over the last decade - it isn't stopping there apparently, it's still sinking. The reason is simple, because we have been taken water, that is to say groundwater, and pumping it out, then using much of that water to sprinkler all the golf courses out here in the desert. We aren't the only city that is sinking, as many other cities around the world are also sinking. Mexico City for instance is sinking for the same reason, removal of groundwater. Okay so let's talk about; sinking cities for second (try to say that three times fast).

In Louisiana the ground is sinking, just as it is in many places, so even if the ocean remains the same height during its natural tide cycles it appears to be rising. Indeed, there was an interesting piece in Science Illustrated, January/February 2012 Issue, titled; "Louisiana is Sinking," and this is a perfect example of a simple explanation which blows a hole right through the global warming alarmists theories or those who claim that it's all a result of human greenhouse emissions - it's not, not at all.

Now then, why might I bring all this up now? Well, you see, there was an interesting article on April 2, 2012 in Physorg (dot) com recently titled; "Scientists find slow subsidence of Earth's crust beneath the Mississippi delta," which now seems to state;

"The results provide valuable new insights about the factors that affect shorelines and other locations in the Gulf Coast area now and into the future," and their study shows "the basement underneath key portions of the Mississippi Delta, including the New Orleans area, has subsided less than one inch per century faster over the past 7,000 years than the more stable area of southwest Louisiana," and that the lower areas in the Southwest are sinking much faster.

We also know of the sediment challenges as the changes made to the Mississippi River have worked as a Jacuzzi jet challenging the normal delta landscape, thus allowing big storms to erode more, without the land buffer. You see, we shouldn't blame everything on global warming just because it appears that the tide is rising, there might be many other reasons for it. For instance, in Malibu California the beach has slowly been eroding away due to the pounding of the surf, it has nothing to do with rising ocean levels.

It is amazing to me how quickly the global warming zealots and alarmists will point to every single thing that happens as some sort of proof in their theory, especially when that theory is nothing more than hot air. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net/


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