Aaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!
"Unpublishing a blogger raises larger questions" by Noam Cohen, New York Times News Service | July 7, 2008
For generations, people and institutions have had second thoughts about decisions: Stock exchanges delist companies; higher courts overrule lower ones; tennis players do over a disputed point; celebrities reinvent their personalities.
On the Internet, however, we have the technology to act more comprehensively: specifically, to unpublish. One moment there is material on a website, the next moment it's gone, and in such a way that nobody would guess it had existed.
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Yeah, and HOW is that different from the MSM WEB CUTS I SEE EVERYDAY?!?
Here: Iowa Flooding Leads to Fascism
Continuing with the weather theme:
"Bain, others to buy Weather Channel for $3.5b" by Michael J. de la Merced, New York Times News Service | July 7, 2008
NBC and the private equity firms Bain Capital of Boston and Blackstone Group - will pay just under $3.5 billion, people briefed on the matter said.
"This deal makes us the pre-eminent leader in news and information," Jeffrey Zucker, NBC Universal's chief executive, said, citing the company's assets in NBC News, the business channel CNBC, and the news channel MSNBC.
"We're number one in business news, number one in general broadcast news, and now we're number one in weather news, too," he said.
How are you going to tell the difference?
NBC and MSNBC act like weather channels now.
After the deal closes, viewers may see The Weather Channel storm expert Jim Cantore on MSNBC and the "Today" weatherman, Al Roker, on cable.
Answer to my question: You won't be able to tell!
"The cross-promotional opportunities will work both ways," Zucker said. "We're very excited about it."
I'm not; I quit watching cable TV!
Two of the biggest providers of the deal's financing are two hedge funds that specialize in high-yield debt, Blackstone's GSO Capital and Bain's Sankaty Advisors.
Others financing the deal are Deutsche Bank, which was also the buyers' lead financial adviser, and General Electric's GE Commercial Finance unit."
I guess that explains NBC's ignorance and neglect of the economic crisis, huh?
Continuing with the TV theme:
"Critics say word is not getting out on digital TV" by Austin Bogues, New York Times News Service | July 7, 2008
WASHINGTON - Consumer advocates will gather on Capitol Hill this week to lobby for more money to publicize the big change in television next February, when people who have analog TVs will no longer get any picture unless they have cable service or a digital converter box.
The government is going to be spending money on this?
Then they must want you to watch the shit spewing device, huh?
Click.
But would more publicity make any difference to people like Bertha Graham, who steadfastly refuse to make the switch?
Graham, 69, lives in Washington and owns four of the estimated 70 million televisions that rely on over-the-air signals to operate. She says she is perfectly content with her rabbit-ear antennas, which enable her to watch a few shows each day (most faithfully, "The Price is Right").
But on Feb. 17, 2009, Graham will no longer be able to see Drew Carey give away valuable prizes unless she pays $60 to $70 to buy a digital converter box, or obtains a government coupon that subsidizes $40 of the cost of a box (limit two coupons per customer).
What a SCAM UPGRADES ARE!
That is NOT a LITTLE SUM of MONEY there!!!!
That's a week's worth of groceries (for now).
And this is a FORCED UPGRADE!!
What the fuck is AmeriKa, COMMUNIST CHINA?!?
You are BETTER OFF letting the picture GO DARK, folks!!!!
Graham says she lives on a fixed income and does not have money for unplanned expenses. Her son has offered to get the converter boxes for her and help install them, but she has yet to accept his offer, saying that she disagrees with the whole thing on principle.
Bravo, lady!
"You would expect this stuff in Cuba, the places where there is a dictatorship," Graham said. "You shouldn't have to buy converter boxes or do whatever they say to do. You should be able to use what you've got."
But then telecoms wouldn't be able to pull down record $$$$!
Washington officials are worried that millions of people like Graham will lose access to an important lifeline.
What, the TV??! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
Oh, that's a good one!!! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
"Making the transition to digital is not simply a matter of being able to watch wrestling or 'American Idol' or reruns of `Friends,' " Mark Lloyd of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a nonprofit advocacy group, said at a congressional hearing in June. At stake, he said, "is the ability of the nation's most vulnerable populations to maintain uninterrupted access to their key source of news and information and emergency warnings: free, over-the-air television."
What, the TV?!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!
I don't know what you are getting on there, America, but it AIN'T NEWS whatever it is!!!
More like a big pile of shhhhhh....
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