OT: Emergency Buy Out

[Mike Schwartz]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:06 AM, <storkus at storkus.com> wrote:
> [...]
> [jmz:] > It's time to stop looking...[at] the whole world through
> [jmz:] > the lens of the mainstream media.
>
> Is there ANYONE on this list who would disagree with that?  Trouble is,
> is there a real alternative?  Other country's media is just as biased in
> one way or another; in fact, I challenge anyone to find a media that's
> even moderately unbiased. :(
>
> Mike
>
> >   -jmz
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I would point out that, the power of big newspapers is less today
(or, at least very different) from back in the generation of the depression.
This is partly due to the BLOG-o-sphere.
*Not* that bloggers constitute

> a media that's even moderately unbiased. :(

on the contrary! - - every individual has his/her own agenda.
    But I think that the nature of the internet does have the potential
to level the playing field, where a person's reputation is based upon
their power to think, to put ideas in to words, to express opinions
honestly, etc.
    IMHO, this potentially could be a good thing for the future.
just my 0.02 ...
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org