Bored and reading the Sunday supplements
In light of the attempt of some local officials in Clayton County to get giant raises, I noted that Billings, Montana pays its mayor $9,600 a year. I always think of everyone in television bringing in the big bucks, but a 27-year-old television news editor in Kearney, Nebraska earns $24,500 while a 23-year-old television production assistant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma brings in $20,000. So much for my plan to lower my voice, get a face transplant and go into television. (When I first got into this business when Lincoln was still president, a friend told me I had a face for radio and a voice for newspapers). But lest you totally despair Jon Steward makes a cool $1.5 million and news anchor Anderson Cooper makes $2 million.
Friday, March 17, 2006
I told you. Aaron Brown had one of the best news hours in the business. Look who he keeps company with !
... The most centrist outlet proved to be the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown" and ABC's "Good Morning America" were a close second and third...
... Five news outlets - "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report - were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist....
As far as bias goes in media, there is no such thing in a 'centrist' program. In additon to that 'cutting edge' is not mired in 'old world' anything. News is cutting edge. It is the nature of the beast.
Too Bad.
News outlets are not supposed to market politics; they are to add to the discussion. Not. Lead the way. Aaron Brown by far has to be the best in the business. The best ! Bar none. I miss you Aaron.
... Five news outlets - "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," ABC's "Good Morning America," CNN's "NewsNight With Aaron Brown," Fox News' "Special Report With Brit Hume" and the Drudge Report - were in a statistical dead heat in the race for the most centrist news outlet. Of the print media, USA Today was the most centrist....
As far as bias goes in media, there is no such thing in a 'centrist' program. In additon to that 'cutting edge' is not mired in 'old world' anything. News is cutting edge. It is the nature of the beast.
Too Bad.
News outlets are not supposed to market politics; they are to add to the discussion. Not. Lead the way. Aaron Brown by far has to be the best in the business. The best ! Bar none. I miss you Aaron.
Shut up Anderson. Talk about sex. That's what is "W"rong with Bush. He never thinks about sex.
1000
The NEW assault, on the American psyche. Pre-emptive wars. Amazing. Bush is an idiot. He wants to chronically launch new wars, placing cronies in strategic economic vantages and causing incredible chaos and disorder in the International Community. See Biush's agenda is fueled by causing internal unrest in other countries. He causes disorder out of order and then turns around while committing human rights abuses himself, stating a country has changed it's stripes and are committing human rights abuses.
1001
Nic Robertson
I don't a second of this film. This is nonsense. This is nothing more or less different than has been happening. Caches', IED material, etc, etc, etc, etc. Like I said, nothing new. I mean there wasn't a new invasion of Iraqis were there?
1003
This is going to be a long program. Lt. Gen. called Anderson, "Tucker." He must be making the rounds selling his book and forgot whom he was talking about. That's right the American people will never tolerate an escalation in ANY war. SOS, SAVE THE REPUGLICAN SHIP !
1006
Another talking head retired and tired general. This time Shepard. Gee, whiz this guy is really trying to sell a new reality. "W"rong Shepard. Sell your stocks in Carlyle.
1008
Here we go with Pre-Emption. Hadley. What a jerk. The USA has no military to start STILL ANOTHER WAR. These guys are not only jerks they are building STILL another new reality. They are all conartists.
1010
David Gergen. Blah, blah, blah.
1014
Commercials
1017
There won't be troops much longer in Iraq.
1021
The News Secretary
1023
Commercials
The Carlyle Group Buys UC4
03/16/2006
UC4 Software, a specialist in enterprise job scheduling, and global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, today announce that, in partnership with CEO and Founder Franz Beranek and Management, The Carlyle Group has signed an agreement to acquire UC4 Software GmbH, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial details were not disclosed.
http://www.ebizq.net/news/6803.html
1026
Yeah, it is very interesting how the Bush Administration, the 'Family Administration,' destroyed families.
Carlyle, Maxis Lead Firms Borrowing for Asian Buyouts This Week
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group, manager of the largest U.S. buyout fund, and Malaysian mobile-phone network operator Maxis Communications Bhd. sought a total $1.8 billion of acquisition loans this week as debt-funded takeovers surge.
Carlyle in Washington is borrowing NT$30 billion ($927 million) to finance its bid for Taiwanese cable-television provider Eastern Multimedia Group, said bankers competing to lend the money. Kuala Lumpur-based Maxis said it's getting a loan for as much as $880 million to buy most of Aircel Ltd., the largest cell-phone company in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aEQdXw5HZGf0&refer=asia
1029
Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
1032
MacMedia still in the picture
March 17, 2006
With a bit of luck, it could soon be bidding for another cable TV deal in Taiwan.
MACQUARIE Media Group is still in the race to buy another cable TV operator in Taiwan, despite speculation US investment company Carlyle Group has Eastern Multimedia Group sewn up.
Carlyle has won the right to negotiate exclusively with Eastern Multimedia. But the talks are limited to two weeks and if there is no deal, bidders such as MMG, Newbridge Capital (which is teaming up with John Malone's Liberty Media) and Taiwan's Fubon Group can then restate their case.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/xchange/macmedia-still-in-the-picture/2006/03/16/1142098600315.html
Abortion, Authority, and Responsibility
March 16th, 2006
We hear a lot about women’s “reproductive rights.” In fact, some liberal politicians – Barbara Boxer comes to mind – seem to be able to segue from any conceivable topic to a discussion of them with ease. But do men have reproductive rights too?
Answering in the affirmative, a men’s group is filing a lawsuit today to win those very rights. According to CNN.com,
The National Center for Men [NCM] has prepared a lawsuit – nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men – to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend’s daughter . . .
. . . The gist of the argument: If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. The activists involved hope to spark discussion even if they lose.
I must say, this action has been a long time in coming, as it targets a glaring double-standard of the pro-abortion lobby.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5330
THIS IS HIDEOUS. If women want to prevent pregnancy they use contraception. Men need to do the same thing. It's called a condom.
Male activists want say in unplanned pregnancy
Lawsuit seeks right to decline financial responsibility for kids
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/08/fatherhood.suit.ap/index.html
The NEW assault, on the American psyche. Pre-emptive wars. Amazing. Bush is an idiot. He wants to chronically launch new wars, placing cronies in strategic economic vantages and causing incredible chaos and disorder in the International Community. See Biush's agenda is fueled by causing internal unrest in other countries. He causes disorder out of order and then turns around while committing human rights abuses himself, stating a country has changed it's stripes and are committing human rights abuses.
1001
Nic Robertson
I don't a second of this film. This is nonsense. This is nothing more or less different than has been happening. Caches', IED material, etc, etc, etc, etc. Like I said, nothing new. I mean there wasn't a new invasion of Iraqis were there?
1003
This is going to be a long program. Lt. Gen. called Anderson, "Tucker." He must be making the rounds selling his book and forgot whom he was talking about. That's right the American people will never tolerate an escalation in ANY war. SOS, SAVE THE REPUGLICAN SHIP !
1006
Another talking head retired and tired general. This time Shepard. Gee, whiz this guy is really trying to sell a new reality. "W"rong Shepard. Sell your stocks in Carlyle.
1008
Here we go with Pre-Emption. Hadley. What a jerk. The USA has no military to start STILL ANOTHER WAR. These guys are not only jerks they are building STILL another new reality. They are all conartists.
1010
David Gergen. Blah, blah, blah.
1014
Commercials
1017
There won't be troops much longer in Iraq.
1021
The News Secretary
1023
Commercials
The Carlyle Group Buys UC4
03/16/2006
UC4 Software, a specialist in enterprise job scheduling, and global private equity firm, The Carlyle Group, today announce that, in partnership with CEO and Founder Franz Beranek and Management, The Carlyle Group has signed an agreement to acquire UC4 Software GmbH, subject to regulatory approvals. Financial details were not disclosed.
http://www.ebizq.net/news/6803.html
1026
Yeah, it is very interesting how the Bush Administration, the 'Family Administration,' destroyed families.
Carlyle, Maxis Lead Firms Borrowing for Asian Buyouts This Week
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Carlyle Group, manager of the largest U.S. buyout fund, and Malaysian mobile-phone network operator Maxis Communications Bhd. sought a total $1.8 billion of acquisition loans this week as debt-funded takeovers surge.
Carlyle in Washington is borrowing NT$30 billion ($927 million) to finance its bid for Taiwanese cable-television provider Eastern Multimedia Group, said bankers competing to lend the money. Kuala Lumpur-based Maxis said it's getting a loan for as much as $880 million to buy most of Aircel Ltd., the largest cell-phone company in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aEQdXw5HZGf0&refer=asia
1029
Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
Commercials.
If a dead beat dad doesn't want to pay child support because he told his girlfriend he never wanted children then he should have gotten a vasectomy.
1032
MacMedia still in the picture
March 17, 2006
With a bit of luck, it could soon be bidding for another cable TV deal in Taiwan.
MACQUARIE Media Group is still in the race to buy another cable TV operator in Taiwan, despite speculation US investment company Carlyle Group has Eastern Multimedia Group sewn up.
Carlyle has won the right to negotiate exclusively with Eastern Multimedia. But the talks are limited to two weeks and if there is no deal, bidders such as MMG, Newbridge Capital (which is teaming up with John Malone's Liberty Media) and Taiwan's Fubon Group can then restate their case.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/xchange/macmedia-still-in-the-picture/2006/03/16/1142098600315.html
Abortion, Authority, and Responsibility
March 16th, 2006
We hear a lot about women’s “reproductive rights.” In fact, some liberal politicians – Barbara Boxer comes to mind – seem to be able to segue from any conceivable topic to a discussion of them with ease. But do men have reproductive rights too?
Answering in the affirmative, a men’s group is filing a lawsuit today to win those very rights. According to CNN.com,
The National Center for Men [NCM] has prepared a lawsuit – nicknamed Roe v. Wade for Men – to be filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Michigan on behalf of a 25-year-old computer programmer ordered to pay child support for his ex-girlfriend’s daughter . . .
. . . The gist of the argument: If a pregnant woman can choose among abortion, adoption or raising a child, a man involved in an unintended pregnancy should have the choice of declining the financial responsibilities of fatherhood. The activists involved hope to spark discussion even if they lose.
I must say, this action has been a long time in coming, as it targets a glaring double-standard of the pro-abortion lobby.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5330
THIS IS HIDEOUS. If women want to prevent pregnancy they use contraception. Men need to do the same thing. It's called a condom.
Male activists want say in unplanned pregnancy
Lawsuit seeks right to decline financial responsibility for kids
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/08/fatherhood.suit.ap/index.html
CNN is still making Propaganda it's focus. It's stupid already. .
They are sounding exactly as the did before Iraq. There is no way the USA is going to become a raging tyraid of military aggression. This is taking on a very sad montra. The USA hasn't caught Osama bin Laden and here is this news service promoting more and more aggression. There is no way. Hadley and McClellan are nothing but propaganda specialists. The Defense department cries, "Poor me everytime one turns around and they actually think they can come out promoting more war? This is an outrage. 1056 More leverage for UAE as FTA talks set to restart BY ISAAC JOHN (Chief Business Reporter) 16 March 2006 DUBAI — The flexible stand taken by the UAE on DP World row is likely to provide it with more leverage and bargaining power against the US at the fifth round of free trade talks that may get a revival following Minister of Economy Shaikha Lubna Al Qassimi's visit to Washington next week, sources close to the government said. Shaikha Lubna's visit to meet US officials — raising a mix of scepticism and hopes — is viewed by both sides as a strategic initiative in clearing the air of mistrust that had strained the bilateral ties in the wake of the controversy surrounding the collapsed ports deal. With the expected resumption of the crucial fifth round of free trade talks, which has been postponed in the backdrop of DP World's aborted takeover bid of six American ports, both sides can now hope to clinch a trade deal within months, sources said.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?x
No surprise here. Libby's Lawyers Subpoena Times, Reporters By PETE YOST The Associated Press Thursday, March 16, 2006; 9:34 PM WASHINGTON -- The CIA leak case of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby may be heading for a new battle between the news media and the courts, the second such confrontation triggered by the Valerie Plame affair.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/16/AR2006031601711.html
Good night, all.
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