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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post Kerry and AFL-CIO latest Betrayers of Future Generations by goNPA.
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post Kerry and AFL-CIO latest Betrayers of Future Generations by goNPA.
All good points, Tarheel – and each of them dependent on the belief that Big Energy cannot short-circuit the review process at any moment by buying off those who administer it. A belief to which I, speaking purely for myself, no longer adhere. Obama’s thinly-veiled approval of “certain parts” of the pipeline tell us all [...]
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post Sunday Late Night: Ombudsman Ends as Pravda Wins
Thanks Teddy.
The last actual Ombuddy the WaPo ever had was Geneva Overholser, whose reputation as a Gannett buster – even as she edited its little rag in Des Moines, prior to taking the WaPo ombudsmanship – was my inspiration, as I edited an even-smaller Gannett rag in nowheresville, PA. That’s going back a ways – back to when it was still possible to rage against that corporate machine and shame it into doing the right thing. But no more.
Discouraging – and revelatory – as your fine post is, it does not call out the real culprit in the downfall of not just the WaPo, but newspapering in particular, and the news media in general: Publicly held media conglomerates which care not a whit about their constitutional duties, but instead, completely and utterly, about their obligation to shareholders. Simply stated that is this: double-digit percentage increases of stock prices, though creating such gains means “trimming the fat.” Translation: Slashing newsroom staff. Because, you know, EVERYBODY buys the paper to read THE ADS, not the news.
When the the former CEO of General Mills became publisher of the LA Times in the mid 90′s all doubt was removed: Newspapers, which once were published by community-minded (and yes, completely biased!) men (or, too infrequently, women) who knew their way around an issue (not to mention a newsroom) were now, like so many other facets of American life vital to the nation’s happy continuance, at the mercy of Big Business – and beholden to just one group of critics: Investors.
The reality on this front, perhaps more devastatingly than in other area of American life, is that by being so completely in league with the corporate profit-mongers, what we once knew as “Journalism” is beyond dead. It is but a memory, and the chains which claim now to practice it are just another brick in the Wall.
And by that, of course, I mean Wall Street.
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post On progressive unity by lakota.
Or maybe a “New Progressive Alliance“??
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Roseanne is a macadamia nut farmer now. Which pretty much says it all.
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
That’s what I try to tell him :)
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Oh I realize you CAN get it. I just don’t WANT to! Once you’ve gone Jif, trying to eat Crazy Richard’s is like chewing – hmmm, what analogy would a chemist appreciate – ah! diatomaceous earth.
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
I still buy a jar of marshmallow spread every now and then – and it’s gone about a week later :)
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Okay, thanks. I guess. (You really harshed my mellow.)
Speaking of which – FLUFFERNUTTERS!!! Do you remember the jingle?
“Oh it takes Fluff Fluff Fluff
To make a Fluffernutter
Marshmallow Fluff
And lots of peanut butter!!”Today we could apply the first line regarding the composition of any FoxNEWS cast…
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
I noticed that in one of your prior responses, Jon, and you can bet I’ll say so next time I see him. Though I think it’s the saturated fat in that OTHER butter I slather on the sandwich he’s concerned with :)
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Things are good, but this is about you, your book and it’s topic! People are always surprised when I say PB&B is my favorite: Peanut butter are (regular old) butter. But there’s something about the saltiness of the butter and how it interacts with the PB that’s just – mmmm!
And of course my cardiologist just loooooves to hear that eat them…
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jon Krampner, Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
Welcome blue- I mean Jon :) Glad to see your book “born,” and looking forward to reading it! Congratulations!
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post Newsday: “Exxon backs Obama plan to impose climate change fees” by metamars.
I can’t decide what’s funnier: The pointless “points” of this diary or metamars referring to himself in the third person.
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Anthony Noel commented on the blog post Thankful for the Walmart Strikers This Holiday
Liked, tweeted. Thanks KG.
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post NLRB on Walmart: It’s Complicated. by Anthony Noel.
Exactly right, OB, and that’s why the “it’s complex” shit worries me. It would be soooo in line with this administration’s MO to make an announcement Thursday (to)night issuing a “temporary injunction” and saying a “cooling off period” is the best course for now. That being said, allow me to shout: NOTHING WOULD MAKE ME [...]
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post NLRB on Walmart: It’s Complicated. by Anthony Noel.
And thanks once again, if belatedly, moderator person, for adding the art!
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post NLRB on Walmart: It’s Complicated. by Anthony Noel.
How can you know when the NLRB “would have” issued an injunction, Anti? You can’t, as sure my conjecture that the decision “should have” been swift and easy is just that: conjecture. But neither of our takes should mean we assume anything, let alone grant this two-timing president a pass. If his visions of what [...]
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post NLRB on Walmart: It’s Complicated. by Anthony Noel.
“Yes” and “Well of course they do!/s” to your comments 4 and 6 respectively.
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post Walmart to NLRB: “Whaaaaaaaa!” by Anthony Noel.
Thanks DiE :)
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Anthony Noel commented on the diary post NLRB on Walmart: It’s Complicated. by Anthony Noel.
I hear ya, Jane, but when I read the linked report from ABC my sense was that a decision will come late today or early tomorrow. I think if an announcement is made pre-Friday it will be a “positive” one (for Walmart’s shoppers and its apologists). I’ll be very surprised (and elated) if the WH [...]
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