OT: Emergency Buy Out

[Jason Spatafore]

Thank the people....hopefully it will *never* pass.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Zeidner" <jjzeidner at gmail.com>
To: <schwartz at acm.org>
Cc: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Emergency Buy Out


>  the bill did not pass!
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...]
>>
>> 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 ...
>> --
>> Mike Schwartz
>> Glendale  AZ
>> schwartz at acm.org
>>
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